Twenty years ago, Dr. field a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach…….interview-centered method
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Twenty years ago, Dr. field a noted anthropologist, visited the island of Tertia. Using an observation-centered approach…….interview-centered method
The argument given above is a fallacious argument. The first thing every reader would notice is that the comparison of the time when one researcher went and the other is very vague. As we see a quantitative number of years before Dr. Field went but the as the author writes about the second researcher, he says the new research was conducted recently, this time gap is not definite thus, a meticulous reader would eradicate the authenticity spontaneously due to not providing sufficient data to assail the research by first anthropologist.
The time difference leads us to another path i.e. the children twenty years before are now adults so the age group Dr. Karp is interviewing now is different, there is a possibility that in these twenty years a cultural overturn might have taken place resulting in a drastic change in social behavioral norms.
The strongest animadversion about this argument is that both the research methodologies are authenticated by providing any data interpretation or by actuarial chart. It would have benefited the author’s position if he has not only compared these two methodologies by just stating them but also providing us with an adumbrate of the process through which such results have deduced. Because all the tools for research has certain errors, it is possible that even if now Dr. Karp has approached the Tertia children rearing by using an observation-centered approach he might have ended up with the results similar to Dr. Field’s and vice versa. Hence we can not be adamant about any one particular method to be the only sole righteous. Dr. Karp’s research would have been more valid if he conducted Dr. Field’s methodology as well and reached the same result as his by interview-centered method then he might have declared Dr. Field’s research fallacious but even then as antedated above other factors of different age group, difference of years might make his strong headed statement regarding Dr. Field less authoritative.
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