Using existing statistics, Professor Ford finds that towns with low median incomes tend to have higher crime rates than towns with high median incomes. Ford concludes that poor people are more likely to commit crimes than people with high incomes. Ford is

a. Committing the ecological fallacy.
b. Using verstehen.
c. Doing content analysis.
d. Developing ideal types.
e. Doing replication.


A

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