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Hierarchical models do not aggregate individuals to the ecological level, avoiding the ecological fallacy of attributing group characteristics to individuals. The atomistic fallacy is circumvented by the inclusion of contextual effects which are measured at the macro level and are not the sum of individual characteristics.