{"id":7801,"date":"2019-05-22T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ecological_fallacy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:00:48","slug":"ecological_fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ecological_fallacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecological fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bias due to deriving inferences about individual characteristics from aggregate data, or an error of inference due to a failure to distinguish between different levels of organisation. &nbsp;The bias or error may occur because an association that is observed among variables at an aggregate level does not necessarily exist at an individual level. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Inferences, <a href=\"levels_of_analysis\">Levels of analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"levels_of_organization\">Levels of organization<\/a>, Typological thinking  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bias due to deriving inferences about individual characteristics from aggregate data, or an error of inference due to a failure to distinguish between different levels of organisation. &nbsp;The bias or error may occur because an association that is observed among variables at an aggregate level does not necessarily exist at an individual level. &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ecological_fallacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ecological fallacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}