Ignoring this factor in your characterization of "balance" distorts reality because it conflates cause with consequence.
Because it conflates the notions of design and function, it becomes necessary to mark the distinction between cases of selection with modification (function/design) and cases where a trait of an organism is coopted for a use for which it is not modified (exaptation).
I don't like this comparison, because it conflates one healthy and life-affirming thing with something destructive and enslaving.
The State Department standard is highly controversial because it conflates criticism of Israeli policies with anti-Jewish hatred, shutting down debate by suggesting that anyone who looks critically at Israeli policy is somehow beyond the pale.
"I think Iraq paralyzed the community, and its first N.I.E. on Iran was disastrous, in my view, because it conflated weaponization with the process of developing a nuclear weapon.
(The title conflates several emblematic gay rom-coms).
In contrast, the editorial confuses and conflates several aspects of the current debate that are important to clarify.
The proposition would also conflate several unrelated policy issues, e.g., physician discipline and consumer transparency, into one ballot proposal.
Finally, it conflates spiritual experience with its outcome, in this case well-being.
This method has the advantage of simplicity, but because it aggregates response indices across time intervals, it conflates effects due to practice, learning, overall speed of responding, and randomness, with possible systematic periodic fluctuations in response times.
