Bringing context back into epidemiology¶
Diez-Roux, A. V. (1998). Bringing context back into epidemiology: variables and fallacies in multilevel analysis. American Journal of Public Health.
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Domain-specific¶
- Atomistic Fallacy
- The atomistic fallacy — also called the individualistic fallacy — is the inferential error of drawing conclusions about group-level or population-level relationships solely from individual-level data
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“A large portion of current epidemiologic research is based on methodologic individualism: the notion that the distribution of health and disease in populations can be explained exclusively in terms of the characteristics of individuals.”
- The atomistic fallacy — also called the individualistic fallacy — is the inferential error of drawing conclusions about group-level or population-level relationships solely from individual-level data
- Fallacy of Composition
- It promotes an individual-level relationship to a group or population while ignoring contextual variance
This sourceDiez Roux is the standard source for the atomistic fallacy so defined - analysis at the individual level, inference at the group level, contextual variables omitted; it does not place the fallacy under the classical fallacy of composition.
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- It promotes an individual-level relationship to a group or population while ignoring contextual variance
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