Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which Confounds.
- noun One who mistakes one thing for another, or who mentions things without due distinction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who confounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
confounds - noun mathematics A factor, in
data analysis , that causes the effects of two distinct processes to be indistinguishable; aconfounding variable
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Examples
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The confounder is the continually reducing age for obtaining Social Security is supposed to be a way of reducing the total fiscal burden of Social Security by encouraging people to take it earlier for less payout.
Is Social Security Insurance?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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There is always the chance that they might miss some critical confounder that renders their results entirely wrong.
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There is always the chance that they might miss some critical confounder that renders their results entirely wrong.
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There is always the chance that they might miss some critical confounder that renders their results entirely wrong.
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Unfortunately, the study did not report on levels of physical activity, an important confounder in any study on visceral fat.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Skipping Breakfast Promotes Belly Fat in Kids? 2009
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The second lesson here, with regard to clinical trials, is a confounder we need to tackle with vigor, known as the "Healthy User Bias."
Reevaluate this: Drugs to boost hemoglobin need better research 2010
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The second lesson here, with regard to clinical trials, is a confounder we need to tackle with vigor, known as the "Healthy User Bias."
Reevaluate this: Drugs to boost hemoglobin need better research 2010
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The title of the test is already a confounder: it tells the subjects that their moral sense is being studied, which may put them on guard and elicit different reactions than the subjects would have if the test was labeled, for example, “Strategic Reasoning Test.”
Balkinization 2007
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The great confounder may be that being more educated may allow you to have higher income and a better job, and thus potentially a better marriage clear for men, unclear for women, perhaps you argue about money less either way.
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"We knew if we really wanted to leverage the idea, we had to find a way to own it," says Index confounder James Champy.
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