The phrase "does not confound" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to something that is not confusing or perplexing. For example, "The professor's lectures were clear and concise; they did not confound the students."
Johnson alertly observes that time and place are subservient to the mind: since the audience does not confound stage action with reality, it has no trouble with a shift in scene from Rome to Alexandria.
An important implication of the latter result is that specimen diameters must be chosen appropriately when comparing test groups with different architectures (e.g. normal versus osteoporotic) to ensure that the magnitude of side artifacts does not confound the true differences between the groups.
However, as the evidence on the gender difference in lying if anything points towards women being less averse to lying than men (Childs 2012 Dreber and Johannesson 2008;Muehlheusser et al. 2015), we are more confident that lying does not confound our results.
This, however, does not confound any result shown, as always the same method (either water bath or climate cabinet) was used within one experiment.
Third, water-based cleaning does not confound the PGE-outcome associations, and, thus, does not raise potential for a reverse causality.
While this study shows that previous inferences of fertilization success from paternity data are valid for this species, rigorous testing of these assumptions is required to ensure that differential embryonic mortality does not confound estimations of true fertilization success.
Additionally, presence levels were the same across all VEs suggesting that presence did not confound the emotional reaction to the VEs.
Males were injected within two minutes of each other to ensure that longevity of sperm did not confound our experiments.
As neither age nor BMI were associated with any of the NPY2R and NPY1R/NPY5R SNPs, they do not confound the relation in this study.
This provides confidence that PCR artifacts did not confound our conclusion that maternally transmitted extra enhancer alleles silenced the paternal allele in trans (Figure S2).
For microarray samples as for phytohormone analysis, additional plant pairs were established so that the sampling did not confound the measures of plant performance.
