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confounding

[kon-foun-ding, kuhn-] / kɒnˈfaʊn dɪŋ, kən- /














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It’s more like a schematic of a confounding investigation and a sympathetic survey of a devastated emotional landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

This approach was designed to reduce bias and account for potential confounding factors.

From Science Daily Jun. 6, 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

“We cannot look at this single liver case in a silo,” Raffat wrote, adding that “such cases do tend to occur on other GLPs as well because of various confounding factors.”

From Barron's May 4, 2026

Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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