confounding

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The Canadian study did not contain major errors as Wakefield’s paper did, though some critics argued at the time that it didn’t sufficiently control for confounding factors such as maternal depression.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

Donald Trump trades stocks at a confounding rate, Everlane is reportedly sold to Shein, and online media is succumbing to bots.

From Slate • May 23, 2026

Eli An analyst noted thin details and potential confounding factors.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Among the many contentious strongmen who have popped up worldwide in the first decades of the 21st century, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is the most confounding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

There are many confounding factors, however, and whether there’s any causal relation between the two phenomena is unclear, as is its direction, if there is one.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos