An ecological fallacy (also ecological inference fallacy or population fallacy) is a formal fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data that occurs...

A fallacy is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty reasoning in the construction of an argument that may appear to be well-reasoned if unnoticed. The...

homoeomeria, and it depends on the fallacy of division. In statistics an ecological fallacy is a logical fallacy in the interpretation of statistical...

had a low suicide rate. Durkheim has been accused of committing an ecological fallacy, since Durkheim's conclusions are apparently about individual behaviour...

contain fallacies. Because of their variety, fallacies are challenging to classify. They can be classified by their structure (formal fallacies) or content...

parts). In statistics, forms of it are usually referred to as the ecological fallacy. Because this company is so corrupt, so must every employee within...

their spatial context. The fallacy is about transferring individual conclusions to spatial units. The ecological fallacy describes errors due to performing...

(argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy, the fallacist's fallacy, and the bad reasons fallacy. An argument from fallacy has the following general argument...

The base rate fallacy, also called base rate neglect or base rate bias, is a type of fallacy in which people tend to ignore the base rate (e.g., general...

The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that, if an event (whose occurrences...

for two siblings to die from SIDS. This is also an example of the ecological fallacy as it assumes the probability of SIDS in Clark's family was the same...

error termed the ecological fallacy. However, diverging views have contested whether Durkheim's work really contained an ecological fallacy. More recent authors...

which is also termed ‘ecological fallacy’. ‘Ecological fallacy’ means that it is invalid for users to draw conclusions on the ecological relationships between...

The nirvana fallacy is the informal fallacy of comparing actual things with unrealistic, idealized alternatives. It can also refer to the tendency to...

risk-modifying factors that can be examined.[citation needed] The term "ecological fallacy" means that risk-associations apparent between different groups of...

of a concept called mathematical fallacy. There is a distinction between a simple mistake and a mathematical fallacy in a proof, in that a mistake in...

cause—also known as causal fallacy, false cause, or non causa pro causa ("non-cause for cause" in Latin)—is a category of informal fallacies in which the cause...

A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion,...

other enumeration units, and is not possible without committing the ecological fallacy. This again becomes an issue with the MAUP. They have been found not...

The relativist fallacy, also known as the subjectivist fallacy, is claiming that something is true for one person but not true for someone else, when...

(also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief...

argument from consensus authority of the many bandwagon fallacy common belief fallacy democratic fallacy mob appeal[citation needed] truth by association consensus...

The just-world fallacy, or just-world hypothesis, is the cognitive bias that assumes that "people get what they deserve" – that actions will necessarily...

categorized among informal fallacies, more precisely as a genetic fallacy, a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance. Ad hominem fallacies can be separated into...

binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid...

number of informal fallacies have been identified, including the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy of amphiboly, the fallacies of composition and division...

The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is committed when differences in data are ignored, but similarities are overemphasized. From...

leads to few, if any, counterintuitive results. Population ethics Ecological fallacy The Nonidentity Problem. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University...

Cherry picking – Fallacy of incomplete evidence Condorcet paradox – Self-contradiction of majority rule Ecological fallacy – Logical fallacy that occurs when...

election maps are subject to the interpretation error known as the ecological fallacy. Finally, there are problems associated with human perception. Large...