Ecological Fallacy


Ecological Fallacy : With an ecological study, the risk factor information is not known for individual subjects, but rather as a total population characteristic. For example, an ecological study may find that Japanese people have a high rate of stomach cancer and also a high rate of rice consumption. However, with an ecological study, it is not know if the same individuals who eat rice are the same as those who have stomach cancer
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