William Robinson, a sociologist, found that during the 1930s there was a positive relationship between the literacy rate and percentage of the population that was foreign born. If you concluded on this basis that your neighbor, Yasmine, who is a foreign-born resident, has a higher literacy rate than other native-born residents, you would be committing the
a. individualistic fallacy.
b. ex post facto fallacy.
c. ecological fallacy.
d. part-whole fallacy.
e. secondary data fallacy.
C
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