Practice question · True or false
A map showing that two aggregate variables correlate across districts supports a claim about the individuals in them.
Hints
- What unit was measured?
- The ecological fallacy.
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False
Why
False. That is the ecological fallacy: districts with more of X also having more of Y says nothing about whether the same people have both. The classic case is Robinson's 1950 finding that literacy correlated with immigration by state while the individual correlation ran the opposite way.
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