The phrase "hinder observation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when someone (or something) is preventing you from obtaining information by watching or observing. For example, "The dense fog hindered our observation of the bird's behavior."
From underscoring the bureaucratic stupidity that consigns the Naval Observatory to the mists of Foggy Bottom -- which hinder observation and provide a perfect breeding ground for malaria-bearing mosquitoes -- to interlacing the erotic events of the novel with Congressional maneuvering, Mallon rewards the reader with wicked humor and deep insight.
In 1990 Kenneth Rothman proposed that attempting to reduce the number of false positive findings with multiple testing adjustments can hinder observation and impede the advancement of science.
Yet, these data do not exclude an infectious process in which the transmission of AS occurs at a low level especially since low prevalence rates hinder observation of differences.
The video shows serious shaking before the image stabilization procedure, which hinders observation and follow-up applications; the correction effect is obvious, and the video is stabilized following image stabilization.
A lateral inferior access was not employed because of interference of the infrapatelar fat pad, which hindered observation and prevented implantation of the sensor.
Levels of observation were higher than those on agreed leave, but the ward design and disturbance by other in-patients were more likely to have hindered observation by staff.
The moon also hinders observations of the Geminids in December and the rarely-seen Draconids which may produce the year's strongest display, albeit a brief one, on 8 October.
This very fast response of actin accumulation in Dictyostelium may hinder our observation of disassembly immediately after wounding.
In the survival analysis of PD patients, renal transplantation or transfer to HD may hinder the observation of death [ 1, 2, 5].
The correlation with 2 g (LDC) is probably obscured because the large number of genes that show variations in the LDC samples hinder the observation of the background transcriptional status.
A competing risk is an event which either hinders observation of the event of interest, or modifies its probability of occurrence [ 20, 21].
