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Additional field(s): Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | | English term or phrase: confounding variable | Definition from experiment-resources.com :
Confounding variables are variables that the researcher failed to control, or eliminate, damaging the internal validity of an experiment.
Example sentence(s): - Depression as a confounding variable in the estimation of habitual sleep time. PubMed.gov
- Also in most developing economies, corruption would interact as a confounding variable and distort interpretations. institute of economic affairs
- To what extent does America’s economy drive the economy of the overall O.E.C.D.-area, and/or to what extent does the overall O.E.C.D.-area economy drive America’s economy? Or is there a third (or fourth, or fifth…) confounding variable that affects both? The New York Times
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| Störvariable | Definition:
Störvariable (SV) , englisch: confounding variable
Die Störvariable (SV) ist diejenige Variable, die neben der interessierenden unabhängigen Variablen (UV) einen unerwünschten Einfluß auf die abhängige Variable (AV) ausübt. |
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