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What is your line of work and how is concept of “the ecological fallacy” used there?
by oa335 4y ago
What is your line of work and how is concept of “the ecological fallacy” used there?
- Fomite 4y agoEpidemiology and disease ecology, particularly of antimicrobial resistant pathogens. The Wikipedia entry for it gives the definition I've always seen: "An ecological 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."