标题: 三月底考，求拍求鼓励，Argu10 [打印本页] 作者: uniquechong 时间: 2012-3-22 20:19 标题: 三月底考，求拍求鼓励，Argu10 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. 正文： In this argument, the arguer recommends that future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview-centered method to obtain accurate information on Tertian child-rearing practices. Although this argument seems convincing at first time, carefully scrutiny reveals the argument flaws in several respects.
First of all, the difference conclusion between Dr. Karp and Dr. Field does not necessarily indicate that the Dr. Field's conclusion is invalid. It is possible that the Tertian child-rearing practices have changed over the twenty years because of the communicating of the different islands residents or the development of the society. It may be highly possible that the Tertian residents found that rearing children by entire village was longer useful and effective and then they abandoned it. For that matter, the difference conclusion between Dr. Karp and Dr. Field is just a natural result of this changing in the child-rearing practices. In short, without eliminating out other possible reasons for the difference conclusion between Dr. Karp and Dr. Field the arguer cannot convince me that the Dr. Field's conclusion is invalid.
Secondly, even if the Dr. Field's conclusion is invalid, the arguer assumes further that the Dr. Karp's conclusion is valid and trustful. Although this is entirely possible, the arguer provides no evidence such as the effectiveness and validity of the Dr. Karp's survey to substantiate this assumption. Lacking such evidence it is entirely possible that the De. Field's survey is biased and untrustful. For example, the interviewed children of Tertian is only very small percent of the overall interviewed children of the group of islands. In this case, we cannot draw any firm conclusion about Tertian child-rearing practices from the Dr. Karp's survey. Another possibility is that the Dr. Karp asked some slant questions, which induce the children to talk more about their biological parents. Until the arguer presents several evidence that the Dr. Karp's survey is effectiveness and validity I remain unconvinced that Dr. Karp's conclusion is valid and trustful.
Finally, even if the arguer can support all of the forgoing assumptions, the arguer's just assertion that the interview-centered method is better than the observation-centered method is still unwarranted. Nevertheless, there is no guarantee that it is necessarily the case, it just possible that observation-centered approach is a better method to study the Tertian child-rearing practices. Perhaps, the Dr. Field's survey ignores some serious particulars and data which make the conclusion invalid. Moreover, Dr. Karp’s valid conclusion is just an aberration that cast any evidence on the priority of the interview-centered method. Thus lacking such information about the difference and the effectiveness of the observation-centered method and the interview-centered method, it is difficult to assess the merit of the recommendation which recommends that future research on the subject should be conducted via the interview-centered method.