The following appeared in an article written by Dr. Karp, an anthropologist.
"Twenty years ago, Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia and concluded from his observations that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own biological parents. However, my recent interviews with children living in the group of islands that includes Tertia show that these children spend much more time talking about their biological parents than about other adults in the village. This research of mine proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is invalid and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid as well. The interview-centered method that my team of graduate students is currently using in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
Dr. Field an anthropologist visited the island of Tertia and over the period of time-based
on his observation, he noted the child rearing nature of adults in the village. But after 20 years interview conducted by a team of researchers says that Dr. field observation was not accurate since children in this island spent most of the time with their biological parents instead of other adults. So the author concluded that interview-based approach is more precise than results based on observatory skills. But the author has not considered lots of facts before concluding the accuracy of interview-based approach and these facts are as follows.
First, Tertia is a group of many islands. Dr. field observation has been taken 20 years ago. So there are a lot of chances that over those years the culture has been changed. so based on the current interview we can't deny that Dr. field observation was wrong 20 years back.
Furthermore, current interviews have been taken over a group of island children, so here
we don't know the how many percentages of children has participated in the interview.
Also, we don't know the geographical location of those areas whose children might have participated. So to generalize this sample result over the village will certainly be wrong. Over the 20 years of the period, there would be population growth. So again the sample size of previous observation and the current interview is completely different.
Apart from all this, there is a reason to believe in the accuracy of the observation-based approach. In 20 years, the children must have been adult and their thinking might be same now and they are more in touch with other adults than their biological parents. But instead of analyzing their thoughts in current interviews, we might be conducting interviews on their children, so the current sample and previous sample is completely different. Comparing Dr. field observation with current interview doesn't seem fit here.
However, it might be possible that since parents and other adults might have ingrained the same thought process in their children as well, so if their children are not responding in the same way as they did 20 years back then there must be some mistakes in Dr. Field observation.
Further, there exist some psychological and ethical reasons, which may influence the
current interview results. Like, children are the basic fundamental unit of a village, which in future will lead the village. so it is the responsibility of each adult to educate them and give them the best upbringing in order to do good for his village. The adults may think that after 7-8 years when the children will be employable. So investing their time in rearing his village children will be fruitful in future. When the child will become mature, he will also try to repay the same to those adults by turning their ideas into reality.
But after all, Family comes first and children are responsible for their family well being when they start earning. So they spend most of the time with their parents to solve their problems.
In conclusion, neither of the approaches seems wrong, since both produced some accurate
results based on the available data. Since both of them were taken place in the different time period, and sample on which it was taken was different, so comparing them with each other seems doesn't fit here. Also both the methods have their limited scope, so to say that a particular method will work seems illogical.
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 586 350
No. of Characters: 2829 1500
No. of Different Words: 236 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.92 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.828 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.627 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 136 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.704 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.334 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.815 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.302 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.571 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.142 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 8 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: So
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, well, after all, apart from, in conclusion, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 28.8173652695 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 55.5748502994 133% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2917.0 2260.96107784 129% => OK
No of words: 582.0 441.139720559 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.01202749141 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.91168771031 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69699743869 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.429553264605 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 870.3 705.55239521 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 19.7664670659 147% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.2166599307 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.586206897 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0689655172 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.06896551724 5.70786347227 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 13.0 5.15768463074 252% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.67664670659 299% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.166762391409 0.218282227539 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0534213387247 0.0743258471296 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.072741429791 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0782826944013 0.128457276422 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10159096702 0.0628817314937 162% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.72 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 98.500998004 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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