confounding
混杂的,混杂的因素,混淆性,混杂性
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- : perplexing or bewildering: He’s hosting an evening of readings from some of the most sensational and confounding cases of Sherlock Holmes.
- : throwing someone or something into confusion or disorder: Still in shock, his wife broke the confounding news that their only son had been killed by a stray bullet.
- : Statistics. interacting with both the dependent and independent variables in an experiment or study, making it impossible to determine a causal effect between them:The authors list potential confounding factors, but it is not clear from the paper whether all of these were controlled for in the analyses.
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- : the act of perplexing, bewildering, causing confusion or disorder, etc.: The Jaredite civilization is supposed to have formed in the wake of the miraculous confounding of languages at the Tower of Babel.
- : the act of treating or viewing different things as if they were the same: I have always found the confounding of Christmas and Hanukkah disturbing.
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In each pairing, one state has imposed tough and sometimes unpopular restrictions on behavior, only to be confounded by a neighbor’s leniency.
What confounded him was that we’d chosen to celebrate such a special occasion with, of all dishes, turkey.
As in the New York study, the researchers also accounted for confounding factors, but they calculated survival rates instead of mortality rates.
The roots of this lie in the phenomenon of dynamical chaos among gravitating objects, the confounding but mathematically chartable instability and unpredictability of celestial motions.
Even biologists and ecologists who might be inclined to mistrust an intruding physicist praise Gore’s respectful attitude toward their field and say that he’s making real headway on problems that have long confounded them and their colleagues.
But it is unfounded fear by an American public at minimal risk of contracting the illness that is confounding those efforts.
But their action just proved another confounding piece of this negligent puzzle.
They were simply seen as easy, wealthy targets, confounding local conventions of the time.
One of the most confounding aspects of the process, these officials say, is why the State Department is seen as largely untouchéd.
Margaret Thatcher was a woman: a confounding, irrepressible, flirtatious, stubborn, certitudinous, unabashedly conservative woman.
This acute thinker seems to me to have fallen into a mistake by land with labor.