Discussion
State whether the following is true or false.
The ecological fallacy is the error of inferring something about an individual from a statistic computed for an area.
Answer: D
A district with a high average income contains poor households, so concluding that a particular resident is wealthy does not follow. Thematic maps invite the fallacy precisely because they present the area value as a single uniform tone.
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