Explain how the poverty level is determined. on edinuity* the possible answer may the poverty level is defined by the u. s. bureau of the census and it is determined by calculating the cost of providing an adequate diet. this number is then multiplied by three because research has indicated that poor people spend a third of their income on food.

Suppose that sociologists and cultural anthropologists are tying to measure the amount of child abuse for cross cultural comparison. they run into disagreement over whether spanking a child is abuse or discipline. what problem are they encountering in their research? a. reliability of the definition of abuse. b. validity of the definition of abuse. c. occam's razor about the definition of abuse. d. none of these.