Sentence examples for confounding note from inspiring English sources

If the former document had supported the Bush Administration's aggressive posture toward Iran, the new one introduced a confounding note of uncertainty.

Even though these two countries were culturally worlds apart, it sometimes seemed that the border region was a kind of third country between them – 2,000 miles long and ten miles wide, a place where two countries meet, sometimes easily, sometimes roughly, and often with a confounding note of surrealism.

In addition, patients did receive other concurrent antihypertensive therapy which could have confounded noted effects on BP and other measures.

The second measurement issue to consider relates to the period of time for which data are collected, a source of confound noted by other reviewers [ 41, 42, 110, 111].

News of a pick-up in exports has fanned hopes the UK economy will finish the year on a strong note, confounding earlier fears that the Brexit vote would spark a sharp slowdown.

18 The authors note that confounding by factors such as a "healthy swimmer effect"—that is, children who are uncomfortable swimming because of respiratory symptoms are less likely to do so regularly cannot be ruled out.

She wrote about this in the essay Confounding Geography, where she notes that as a young writer she was told to "delve into the language and landscape of your own territory.

We also noted reverse confounding on adjusting for study covariates.

At the inception of this study, we had not planned to seek information on potentially confounding exposures beyond those noted by the authors.

Other ad hoc investigations of confounding potential, in particular noting the absence of lung cancer excess in prebake aluminum workers (exposed to dust but little PAH), came to similar conclusions (Armstrong et al. 2002).

The first question you need to ask yourself is: Will this co-founder help me, or confound me? **Side note: I am using confound in the "old-fashioned" way, which refers to preventing someone from being successful.**.