Correlation of Groups and Individuals
Ecological fallacy happens when correlation between individual variables is based upon correlation of the variables collected for the group to which those individuals belong.
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Famous quotes containing the words groups and/or individuals:
“Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soilless army of human prey.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)