Using existing statistics,Professor Ford finds that areas with low median incomes tend to have higher crime rates than areas with high median incomes.Ford concludes that poor people are more likely to commit crimes than high-income people.Ford is:
A)committing the ecological fallacy.
B)using verstehen.
C)doing content analysis.
D)developing ideal types.
E)doing replication.

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Professor Ford is committing the ecological fallacy by making an assumption about individuals based on aggregate data of a larger group (in this case, assuming that all poor people are more likely to commit crimes than high-income people based on statistics of areas with low median incomes having higher crime rates).

Using Existing Statistics,Professor Ford Finds That Areas with Low Median