medium · MCAT psych-soc
A researcher observes that countries with higher average chocolate consumption also tend to have more Nobel Prizes per capita. The researcher concludes that eating chocolate increases an individual's cognitive ability. This reasoning is a classic example of:
- The Ecological Fallacy
- The Fundamental Attribution Error
- Confirmation Bias
- Simpson's Paradox
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