Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach to studying Tertian culture, he concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. Recently another anthropologist, Dr. Karp, visited the group of islands that includes Tertia and used the interview-centered method to study child-rearing practices. In the interviews that Dr. Karp conducted with children living in this group of islands, the children spent much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. Dr. Karp decided that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture must be invalid. Some anthropologists recommend that to obtain accurate information on Tertian child-rearing practices, future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview-centered method.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
Dr. Karp seeks to undermine our current understanding of Tertian village's culture by introducing evidence from his interview-centered research that seemingly contradicts with Dr. Field's observation-centered research twenty years prior. While at first glance, the interviews with Tertian children cast doubt on Dr. Karp's conclusion that children in Tertia were reared by the entire village, Dr. Karp does not do a sufficient job of convincing the reader that his interview-centered approach results supports his conclusion.
Before analyzing the data collected by his interview, one must question Dr. Karp's interviewee of choice. While all interviews are subject to bias of the interviewer, children are especially influenced by how questions are asked as they are still nascent in their cognitive development. If Dr. Karp structured his interview in a way casted more focus on the child's biological parents, even if it is by simply asking the child to identify them, it can unconsciously lead a child to speak more about their biological parents. Thus, the mere fact that these children spent more time on the topic of their parents does not necessarily mean they actually spend more time with them. This is both because the child interviewee could have been biased to speak about their parents by the interviewer, and because more time spent speaking about a subject doesn't necessarily translate to non-participation of other villagers in the child's life.
Even if Dr. Karp proves that his interview methods were unbiased, and that it can be inferred that Tertian children's biological parents play a larger part in the children's development than other villagers, it is still insufficient to conclude that Dr. Field's observations are invalid. While Dr. Fields concluded that Tertian children were reared by the entire village, he does not speak about the proportion of time each child spends with his biological family. It may be the case that Tertia does have a community-based approach to rising children that is strikingly different than the household-based approach in Western culture, even if the children still spends a large amount of time with their biological parents relative to other villagers. Without giving us a sense of magnitude or any comparison examples to other cultures, Dr. Karp's research does not necessarily conflict with the initial work done by Dr. Field.
Dr. Karp did not successfully defended the superiority of his interview-based approach and its supposed accuracy. While the finding by Dr. Karp is interesting and perhaps suggests that the Tertian village culture is not as drastically different than Dr. Field initially concluded, more evidence is needed to overturn Dr. Field's initial observations completely.
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'first', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'still', 'thus', 'while', 'speaking about']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.271929824561 0.25644967241 106% => OK
Verbs: 0.164473684211 0.15541462614 106% => OK
Adjectives: 0.103070175439 0.0836205057962 123% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0614035087719 0.0520304965353 118% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0570175438596 0.0272364105082 209% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.140350877193 0.125424944231 112% => OK
Participles: 0.0416666666667 0.0416121511921 100% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.14519165324 2.79052419416 113% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0241228070175 0.026700313972 90% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0811403508772 0.113004496875 72% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0109649122807 0.0255425247493 43% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0109649122807 0.0127820249294 86% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2750.0 2731.13054187 101% => OK
No of words: 429.0 446.07635468 96% => OK
Chars per words: 6.41025641026 6.12365571057 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.57801047555 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.384615384615 0.378187486979 102% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.314685314685 0.287650121315 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.247086247086 0.208842608468 118% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.160839160839 0.135150697306 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14519165324 2.79052419416 113% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 207.018472906 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.482517482517 0.469332199767 103% => OK
Word variations: 53.3910394149 52.1807786196 102% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 20.039408867 65% => OK
Sentence length: 33.0 23.2022227129 142% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.4089020781 57.7814097925 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 211.538461538 141.986410481 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.0 23.2022227129 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.692307692308 0.724660767414 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 64.4685314685 51.9672348444 124% => OK
Elegance: 1.60465116279 1.8405768891 87% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.355489276156 0.441005458295 81% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.13559800323 0.135418324435 100% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0617616379238 0.0829849096947 74% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.60130344222 0.58762219726 102% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.138181539629 0.147661913831 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.159064974116 0.193483328276 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0761582528108 0.0970749176394 78% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.380647481432 0.42659136922 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.086486178684 0.0774707102158 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261818111215 0.312017818177 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0851257111609 0.0698173142475 122% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 2.0 6.46551724138 31% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 5.36822660099 19% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 4.0 14.657635468 27% => More topic words wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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