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.
In the article above Dr. Karp an anthropologist comes to a conclusion that the findings of Dr. Field, a noted anthropologist, of the upbringing of children in Tertia to be invalid. Dr. Karp comes to this conclusion via the results of the experiment he conducted. However, before Dr. Karp's evaluation of Dr. Field's conclusion can be judged, three questions must be answered.
First of all, Dr. Field claims that the children in Tertia are reared by an entire village and not just by their biological parents. Dr. Karp argues that from the face to face interviews that he conducted with the children of Tertia, during his own research, spend much more time talking about their biological parents and not about other villagers. Dr. Karp prematurely concludes that if the children are talking more about their biological parents it means that the biological parents were the one involved in raising the child and not other villagers. It can be that the biological parents are someone that everyone looks up to, not just the children and as a result everyone talks about the parents of that particular kid. It can also be that the biological parents have seen unseen influence during the upbringing of their children, for example: they might work day and night to earn money to fund the education of their children. Thus the entire village might have raised the child but the child is ever grateful to their parents for funding their education. As a result, if more light can be shed to answer these questions, Dr. Karp's argument would be more tenable.
Secondly, Dr. Karp assumes that the amount of interviews that he conducted was exhaustive enough to reach his personal conclusion. On the contrary, it can be the case that the sample space on which he did his research was not representative enough to form this overall conclusion that the biological parents were the one's who reared the children and not the villagers. Consequently, we need more information regarding how representative is the sample space is and this will determine whether Dr. karp's argument holds water or not.
Last of all, Dr. Karp also argues that the observation centered research conducted by Dr. Field was not valid. He based this conclusion prematurely thinking that his interview centered approach was more efficacious. This is not enough evidence to conclude that observation centered research is not the way to go to answer such research problems. Dr. Karp could have cited other research where they show why and how interview based research is more accurate than observation based research for similar problems. As a result it is not clear the extent of the validity of such a bold claim.
In conclusion, the argument on which Dr. Karp's conclusions stand is quite weak as of now as they are based on unwarranted assumptions. Thus, if the answers to be above stated questions can be found it will be much more easy to validate Dr. Karp's conclusions of going against Dr. Field's conclusions.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 501 350
No. of Characters: 2434 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.731 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.858 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.66 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.05 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.625 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.583 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.205 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 937, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...o fund the education of their children. Thus the entire village might have raised th...
^^^^
Line 5, column 219, Rule ID: DID_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean 'be'?
Suggestion: be
...mple space on which he did his research was not representative enough to form this ...
^^^
Line 7, column 512, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
...on based research for similar problems. As a result it is not clear the extent of ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, look, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, in conclusion, talking about, as a result, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 28.8173652695 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2482.0 2260.96107784 110% => OK
No of words: 501.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95409181637 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73107062784 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74157927249 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.419161676647 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 737.1 705.55239521 104% => 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: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.2649692195 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.1 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.05 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.75 5.70786347227 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
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: 0.260641492327 0.218282227539 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0965995155544 0.0743258471296 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100809513623 0.0701772020484 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155697162803 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0783589980701 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.68 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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