Why did henry david thoreau build a cabin on walden pond? a. to recover from a debilitating nervous breakdown b. to conduct an experiment about living in solitude c. to be close to his friend emerson so they could collaborate d. to become famous and well respected by his community?

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.