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Argument36  第2篇让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户    共用时间：30分2秒    470 words
从2005年6月21日18时13分到2005年6月21日18时30分
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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 proves that Dr. Field's conclusion about Tertian village culture is false, and thus that the observation-centered approach to studying cultures is invalid. Because they are using the interview-centered method, my team of graduate students working in Tertia will establish a much more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures.'
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In this argument, the arguer concludes that his interview-centered method is superior to the observation-centered method, because the former can establish much more accurate understanding of any island cultures. To support his conclusion, the arguer cites an example of theTertia island, in which his understanding is the opposite to Dr. Karp, who got his understanding based on observation. Careful scrutiny of those evidences will reveal how goundless the arguer's conclusion is.

First of all, the arguer  fails to inform us how his interview-centred method is conducted on the research of the Tertia island. For to get valid conclusion, the children participated in the interview has to be sample random, and be representive enough of the whole. However, the arguer does not provide any information on the his method. It is quite possible that those children are not representive at all, or the samples are too small to be convincing.  If those scenarios are true,  it will undermine the validity of the conclusion.

Even if I were to concede that the interview can present the real situation of the Tertia island, the arguer fails to establish the causal relation between more time talking with their biological parents and the custom of the Tertia. There could be many explanations concerned with the result of the interview. Perhaps children lives in the same housees with their biological parents, which provide more opportunities for talking, while other viliagers of Tertia provides food or clothes and such for the children.  Or perhaps the questions during the interview are too sujective, and can not reflect the truth of customs of Tertia. Without precluding those possibilities, the arguer's conclusion is unconvincing at all.

Thirdly, the research of Dr.Karp was taken twenty years all,  and now the customs in Tertia might have changed a lot. If this is true, the arguer can not come to conclusion that Dr Karp's method is false, and the arguer's method is better than Dr Karp's.

Last but not least, the arguer commits fallacy of hasty generalization. In the arguement, the arguer hastily concludes that the interview-centered method has the advantage of getting accurate understanding in all the research on island cultures. However, the arguer does not take into account other relevant factors that might have influence on choosing what method should be taken, like the ways of living, the population, history and such.

In sum, the arguer's conclusion is too premature to be tenable, and might cause negative effect on island cultures research. To bloster his conclusion, the arguer has to convince us that the customs in Tertia stays the same as twenty years ago, and provide information on how the interview-centered method is conducted. And he might also have to show information on the casual relations between time spent on talking and the reared customs.

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