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# The ecologocal fallacy: Thorndike's (1939) example

The ecological fallacy occurs when results from group-level analyses are wrongly extended to individuals. The fallacy is often attributed to William S. Robinson's [-@robinsonEcologicalCorrelations1950] paper, [*Ecological correlations and the behavior of individuals*](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2087176?origin=crossref&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents), and the name itself first appeared in sociologist Hanan C. Selvin's [-@selvinDurkheimSuicideProblems1958] paper, [*Durkheim's suicide and problems of empirical research*](https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/33024288/Durkheim-suicide_empirical-research-problems.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DDurkheims_Suicide_and_Problems_of_Empiri.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20191014%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20191014T151247Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=4e9eeb342fa0332cd0f7ed00a4769661cb7c6921e07dd19a763595f037d35dae). However, my fellow psychologists might be happy to learn the idea goes back at least as far as E. L. Thorndike's [-@thorndikeFallacyImputingCorrelations1939] paper, [*On the fallacy of imputing the correlations found for groups to the individuals or smaller groups composing them*](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1416673?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents). The purpose of this project is to walk out Thorndike's original examples.
The ecological fallacy occurs when results from group-level analyses are wrongly extended to individuals. The fallacy is often attributed to William S. Robinson's [-@robinsonEcologicalCorrelations1950] paper, [*Ecological correlations and the behavior of individuals*](https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/38/2/337/658252), and the name itself first appeared in sociologist Hanan C. Selvin's [-@selvinDurkheimSuicideProblems1958] paper, [*Durkheim's suicide and problems of empirical research*](https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/33024288/Durkheim-suicide_empirical-research-problems.pdf?1392728055=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DDurkheims_Suicide_and_Problems_of_Empiri.pdf&Expires=1603941022&Signature=K1tMxgcPcR5d28KgPUDAxH6-F~aLs2nqXGiNhJpgcqxSXPo0rjqqnsImLGvv-FdfdYGIeMtKWhRmeZG4RFnHRDQOXTguGsirusuch7WEVeDdaR1YUEia6fwlg~SHYERWbBPTCGuB0vqxHlQgGyzkfy7yaTOCfvMdbu-EH-HYEnmm8EBv2xFtejMhkXoSf-HwkPrDf3HCrIzquq2vpXA260McsZWl6PBJ-C542SGQ7V9iEdpJly8Y0mjLUriqddPWkxZKR35NKRlPTd53kU1F11NCMaYy3vuA9zEHqadXTMAWIQzJRbvrYbAeP5uOp2aaRLIwiMVbFGeYvWwxkDl8wg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA). However, my fellow psychologists might be happy to learn the idea goes back at least as far as E. L. Thorndike's [-@thorndikeFallacyImputingCorrelations1939] paper, [*On the fallacy of imputing the correlations found for groups to the individuals or smaller groups composing them*](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1416673?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents). The purpose of this project is to walk out Thorndike's original examples.

Here's how Thorndike began his paper:

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year = {1950},
volume = {15},
doi = {10.2307/2087176},
url = {https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/38/2/337/658252},
journal = {American Sociological Review},
language = {English},
number = {3},
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publisher = {{The University of Chicago Press}},
issn = {0002-9602},
doi = {10.1086/222356},
url = {https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/222356},
url = {https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/33024288/Durkheim-suicide_empirical-research-problems.pdf?1392728055=\&response-content-disposition=inline\%3B+filename\%3DDurkheims_Suicide_and_Problems_of_Empiri.pdf\&Expires=1603941022\&Signature=K1tMxgcPcR5d28KgPUDAxH6-F~aLs2nqXGiNhJpgcqxSXPo0rjqqnsImLGvv-FdfdYGIeMtKWhRmeZG4RFnHRDQOXTguGsirusuch7WEVeDdaR1YUEia6fwlg~SHYERWbBPTCGuB0vqxHlQgGyzkfy7yaTOCfvMdbu-EH-HYEnmm8EBv2xFtejMhkXoSf-HwkPrDf3HCrIzquq2vpXA260McsZWl6PBJ-C542SGQ7V9iEdpJly8Y0mjLUriqddPWkxZKR35NKRlPTd53kU1F11NCMaYy3vuA9zEHqadXTMAWIQzJRbvrYbAeP5uOp2aaRLIwiMVbFGeYvWwxkDl8wg__\&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA},
urldate = {2020-10-26},
abstract = {The theoretical content of Suicide has been thoroughly discussed, but relatively little attention has been paid to the ways in which Durkheim tested and refined his theories with empirical data. Durkheim's empirical analyses are multivariate: each additional variable is systematically incorporated into the relationships that have perviously been studied. The analyses are also replicative: the same relationship is studied in widely varying contexts. A careful study of the consequences of these procedures, both intended and unintended, yields valuable insights into current problems of theoretically oriented empirical research.},
file = {/Users/solomonkurz/Zotero/storage/W43S8E9I/222356.html},
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