Sentence examples for confounding performance from inspiring English sources

Contreras will stay in the rotation, Manager Joe Torre said, but the Yankees are back to scrounging for answers about his confounding performance.

Even after Obama's confounding performance in the first Presidential debate, on October 3rd, polls continued to show Romney lagging slightly behind in Nevada.

That year, at age 30, he gave a confounding performance on a rickety wooden platform at the Siddha Yoga Ashram in Ganeshpuri, India (the same one Elizabeth Gilbert described in "Eat, Pray, Love").

The other great controversy of the week continued to surround the suspended Houston linebacker Alex Cushing, who staged a confounding performance at a news conference Thursday to deny the performance-enhancing drug use that got him suspended.

While these group differences were deliberately 'normalised' by the neutral filler task, to avoid confounding performance on the interpretation bias test, the elevation in negative affect had returned at T4, after the test, reflecting some persistence in their effects.

Many factors conspire to confound performance comparisons among tools, and the sources or implications of observed differences in results are difficult to pinpoint.

While we were interested in exploring differences in mood-states after training, we did not want these to confound performance on the interpretation bias measure.

The observed small effect on this test is well outside the range of what would be considered as abnormal performance and is therefore unlikely to confound performance on the other cognitive tests.

During the study phase, all participants performed at ceiling when reporting whether the speaker of each sentence was male or female, indicating no auditory perceptual deficits that might confound performance in the memory task.

For the cognition composite score, analysis of covariance with covariates age, chlorpromazine equivalents and severity of negative symptoms was applied as these variables have been widely reported to confound performance on neuropsychological tests(Bilder et al, 1992; Hori et al, 2006).

To control for alterations in locomotor activity or motor coordination potentially confounding the performance in the FST and TST, OF (Fig.  2a, b) analysis and Rota Rod (Fig.  2c) analysis were carried out.