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by Fomite 1272 days ago
...that is not how I've ever heard "the ecological fallacy" used, and this is what I do for a living.
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What is your line of work and how is concept of “the ecological fallacy” used there?
Epidemiology and disease ecology, particularly of antimicrobial resistant pathogens.

The Wikipedia entry for it gives the definition I've always seen: "An ecological fallacy is a formal fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data that occurs when inferences about the nature of individuals are deduced from inferences about the group to which those individuals belong."