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Ecological fallacy

An ecological fallacy (also ecological inference fallacy or population fallacy) is a formal fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data that occurs when inferences about the nature of individuals are deduced from inferences about the group to which those individuals belong. "Ecological fallacy" is a term that is sometimes used to describe the…

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related to Mean and median · 6
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Ecological fallacy → assumption that a population mean has a simple interpretation when considering likelihoods for an individual.For instance

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