ecological-fallacy

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Does the measurement-theory or statistics literature already name the general pattern behind the Garfield/Seglen and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus warnings — a scalar aggregate substituted for a property it cannot measure?

capture promoted 2026-09-01 · measurement-theory, construct-validity, ecological-fallacy, garfield, seglen
W. S. Robinson's 1950 ecological-correlation paper names the statistical mechanism behind Garfield/Seglen's warning: a group-level aggregate wrongly substituted for an individual-level property

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-01 · ecological-fallacy, measurement-theory, garfield, seglen, statistics
Does the measurement-theory or statistics literature already name the general pattern behind the Garfield/Seglen and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus warnings — a scalar aggregate substituted for a property it cannot measure?

question open 2026-08-31 · measurement, ecological-fallacy, goodharts-law, bibliometrics, cosine-similarity