A student reads a study that finds that female students are more likely to cheat on exams than male students. From this, he concludes that women's colleges will have high levels of cheating. This is an example of ______.

A. a nomothetic explanation
B. an idiographic explanation
C. reductionism
D. an ecological fallacy


Answer: C

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