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 examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In the article, the author states that Dr. Field’s conclusion about Tertia village is invalid and that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is also invalid. He comes to this conclusion based on the interview-centered method his team of graduate students is conducting. However, before concluding that the observation-centered approach to studying is invalid we have to carefully examine the assumptions of the interview-centered approach.
Firstly, there is a gap of 20 years between the study of Dr. Field and Dr. Karp, so there might have been some changes in the method of doing things between then and now. Maybe the children spend more time in education and less time interacting with elders. It is also possible that there is a change in the relationship between families so the interaction also changes. If either of these has merit then the conclusion drawn in the above argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, the children talking more about parents than elders doesn’t mean that the children are not reared by the entire village. The author prematurely assumes that the children are not reared by the entire village. However, this might not be the case maybe the children are scared, anxious, and nervous to talk to strangers who look different than what they are used to see, and talk about their parents because they regularly see them. If the above is true then the argument does not hold water.
Thirdly, the writer infers that the observation-centered approach is wrong and the interview-centered approach is the correct way based on one example conducted on children of a rural village which is quite fallacious.
From the above observations, we can conclude that the argument is considerably flawed because it relies on unwarranted assumptions. If the columnist can provide more evidence probably we can consider using anr cultures. interview-based approach in understanding traditions and cultures.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 309 350
No. of Characters: 1603 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.193 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.188 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.263 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 113 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.071 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.869 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.354 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.64 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.166 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 372, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...milies so the interaction also changes. If either of these has merit then the conc...
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Line 5, column 347, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...to talk to strangers who look different than what they are used to see, and talk abo...
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Line 5, column 366, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[5]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'used to seeing'.
Suggestion: used to seeing
...s who look different than what they are used to see, and talk about their parents because t...
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Line 5, column 441, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...arents because they regularly see them. If the above is true then the argument doe...
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Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e it relies on unwarranted assumptions. If the columnist can provide more evidence...
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Line 9, column 222, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Interview-based
...ly we can consider using anr cultures. interview-based approach in understanding traditions an...
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Line 9, column 289, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... understanding traditions and cultures.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1652.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 308.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36363636364 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.33094098104 2.78398813304 120% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.522727272727 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 505.8 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0024888269 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.133333333 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5333333333 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86666666667 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13077460904 0.218282227539 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0417444436279 0.0743258471296 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455237060756 0.0701772020484 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0629761341168 0.128457276422 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0249672545489 0.0628817314937 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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