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36.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."

The author points out that the Dr. Field’s conclusion about Tertian village cultures twenty years ago which concluded the children there reared by an entire village is invalid. To support his claim he cites the fact that children living in the island of Tertia tended to talk about their parents in his recent interview. He also relies on the interview-centered method which he assumes more accurate understanding of child-rearing traditions there and in other island cultures.
Careful scrutiny of the supporting evidences, however, reveals that it lends little credible support to his claim.

First of all, he uses the evidence that children in his recent interview talked more about parents. However , tending to talk about their parents do not necessarily indicate that they are raised by their parents. It is entirely possible that the children are reared by the village ,but living with parents make them contact parents more and ties of blood leads them to having more emotion with their parents, which is one of the reason that they spend more time talking about their parents than other adults in the village. In this case, without better evidence that the children was reared by their parents ,the author cannot convince me .

Secondly, because the method the author used is interview-centered method which could cause more subjective questions about the conversation. So it cannot rule out that the conversation tempt the children to talk about their parents, which is not generated spontaneously by children. Since the author fail to eliminate this possibility, I cannot accept the conclusion that children preferred to talk about their parents.

Finally, the author negatives the Dr. Karp’s conclusion which was concluded twenty years ago. We are not informed the current villagers’ living condition. It is entirely possible that during the twenty years, the culture or the life-style in this village has changed ,thereby causing that nurturing children is not the responsibility of village any longer and people prefer to bring up their own children. If this is the case , the author cannot justify that the Dr. Karp’s conclusion is false.

In sum, the argument is not well supported to convince me that the conclusion concluded by Dr. Karp twenty years ago that children in Tertia were reared by an entire village rather than by their own parents is wrong. To strengthen it the author must investigate the local culture and provide the evidence that there were no alluring topics during the interview, rather than relying solely on the conversation with children.