0 a wrong idea or belief, usually one that is generally believed to be true; false reasoning -- feilslutning, villfarelse
The fallacy of employing standardized regression coefficients and correlations as measures of effect.
It also covers religious societies that are dedicated to advocating and spreading the creeds regarded by the rulers as fallacies threatening to their ideological hegemony.
This is a fallacy, especially regarding the collection of information about occupations.
I illustrate the paradox by a dozen apparent fallacies; each can be logically deduced from the environmental structure and an unbiased mind.
However, ecological studies have limitations, the 'ecological bias ' or 'ecological fallacy ' being the major one.
Moreover, such results are mostly 'negative', revealing the fallacies of cultural explanations relying on easy generalisations about national culture.
The fallacy seems borne of a desire for harmony.
Most analyses of spatial variations have thus been ecological, with the potential for falling into various fallacies.