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