Sentences with phrase «about confounding»

The resistance from some MLSs is less about the concept of merging and more about the confounding logistical, technological, and political hurdles inherent in such a massive undertaking.

If you want 100 % certainty, maybe, although even then someone would argue about confounding factors.

If «Newark» is about anything, it is about confounding expectations, in which Brown often takes puckish delight.

The authors of «Gone Girl» and «Wild,» both made into films this season, talk about confounding stereotypes and making their work relevant to men as well as women.

It does not provide evidence about confounding by differences among students from different schools.

«The Shape of Water» director, who along with Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Doug Jones, Alexandre Desplat and J. Miles Dale, were recipients of the gala's Vanguard Award celebrating the fantastical, ethereal drama, spoke candidly and eloquently about the confounding and anxiety - inducing state of political affairs in the world.

Talk about confounding your enemies lol.

Not exact matches

It may be unfair to single him out, but I have become familiar with his work mainly because several of my investment and academic friends in Australia seem to delight in sending me his articles and making witty comments about how economists can take data that confounds their forecasts and use it to confirm their analysis.

When confronted with confounding issues about buyer decisions and their future choices, the impulse is to «run the numbers» for answers.

In our statistical analysis, we include all of the confounding factors discussed above, and control for demographic and regional differences in order to tease out the effects of different factors on whether Canadians support, oppose, or have no opinion about an FTA with China.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

People of faith who care about God's creation face a confounding factor: How we do we tend our homes without hurting the planet?

In discussions with friends and colleagues, we are confounded if not worried about the views of Mr. Santorum.

Dr. Earley is concerned about issues raised by Felt against Wallack's confounding «ontological» and «epistemological» aspects of actual entities..

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

Well they have confounded the doom - mongers - Huddersfield claiming the scalp of Manchester United and with Brighton quietly going about their business gaining points neither side are looking anyway out classed in their first season mixing it with the billions of the EPL.

I love all of Dani's writing, and this memoir is no exception: in short pieces, Dani evokes so much about long marriage, about the sometimes confounding way memory works, about life itself.

It came up at christmas dinner; at one point, the topic of breastfeeding came up, and my spouse's uncle started to say «I know breastfeeding reduces the risk of allergies later» and, expecting him to move on to obesity and IQ and whatever else he was about to say, I just said «No, that's not true», and started trying to explain the difference between correlation and causation, and the difficulties with prospective studies and confounding factors, etc..

As such, it's filled with anecdotes about kids» confounding and utterly kidlike behavior.

I know it's really difficult to correct for confounding factors in a study like that but if we're really talking about «the future of mankind» shouldn't we be seeing some really profoundly alarming differences between the two?

Although economic, cultural, and political pressures often confound decisions about infant feeding, the AAP firmly adheres to the position that breastfeeding ensures the best possible health as well as the best developmental and psychosocial outcomes for the infant.

In the bedsharing debate, there is little concern over the definition of bedsharing (though there is concern about reporting which I will touch on below), but how some of the confounding factors are defined and measured can greatly influence how much of a role they are deemed to play.

Information about potentially confounding variables, such as smoking habits during the breastfeeding period, were obtained from the 6 - mo postpartum interview.

Last week we talked about one aspect of the Democrats» plan to confound conventional wisdom and win tight races in 2014: their online - funded TV...

You confounded the people who insisted on jabbering at us about «what Iowa meant» for the last few days, and you also showed up in record numbers and demonstrated that participatory democracy is not quite dead in this country.

You confounded the people who insisted on jabbering at us about «what Iowa meant» for the last few days, and you also showed up in record numbers and demonstrated...

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R - Nassau) a same - sex - marriage opponent, was described as «totally confounded about what to do.»

Confounding things further, the psychology of voting in a by - election often comes down to sending the government or the national political parties a message of discontent — whereas the psychology of general election voting is about choosing a government.

Culture and creative expression provided a key to the Revolution of 2011 that confounded the foreign policy experts around the world, and they reveal much about the divisions tearing the country apart today.

He reclaimed the capital for the Conservative Party, confounding all those who thought that Ken Livingstone was unbeatable, and I thought it was such a good story that I wrote a book about it!

Asked about the attempt to destabilise his leadership, Clegg said: «I think it's odd, to put it very mildly, that any fellow Liberal Democrat should spend time and good money, while the rest of us were out campaigning for these tough elections, instead surreptitiously trying to come up with specious claims on the basis of polls, which were in any case entirely confounded by the election results.

Our results don't really allow us to accurately predict the size of the effect — they're more about providing evidence that the relationship is actually causal, rather than the result of confounding or common risk factors.»

Another confounding factor is that researchers didn't have enough money to continue observing teachers in their classrooms or surveying them about how they used the product, something that was done in the first cohort.

This confounding of perception — called synesthesia — was thought to affect at most about 4 percent of the population, but University College London psychologist Jamie Ward has uncovered the best evidence yet that we may all have a bit of synesthesia.

It's nigh impossible to measure anything meaningful about planetary atmospheres when there's such a large confounding influence.

«We thought we had the right collection of brains to be able to look at the effects of aging, per se, without having these confounding factors... not too many brain collections in the world actually have information about this,» Boldrini said.

If, in general, potential confounding variables were not associated with quitting status, the ratio of unadjusted to adjusted hazard ratios within studies should be randomly distributed about one.

Coaching clients about their diets is the single most confounding aspect of my gig as a personal trainer — and it's also the single most important aspect of body transformation and overall wellness.

Good experimentation is mostly about controlling for confounding variables.

No scatter plots, no information about how other characteristics of the diet correlate with RXRA methylation, no information about health or lifestyle characteristics of the various carbohydrate intake cohorts so that we can evaluate the possibility of confounding factors.

Studies with that as a huge confounding factor don't effectively demonstrate anything about animal fats.

Patients in both groups experienced about the same reductions in pain, which suggests «the effects of cupping therapy might be confounded» by effects that are not specific to the treatment itself, the researchers said.

To address the possibility of residual confounding, we further adjusted for a propensity score that reflected associations of protein consumption with potential confounding covariates.17 Details about covariate assessment and propensity score analysis are provided in the eMethods in the Supplement.

Goodbye Christopher Robin may also confound audience expectations: for all that it's about the creator of Winnie the Pooh, it's hardly a cuddly kids story.

It's difficult to think of a modern documentary as complex and well put together — not to mention as morally confounding — as Cartel Land, a documentary whose «facts» are stranger, and more compelling, than most fictions about the drug wars.

What's really confounding about the emptiness charge is Chalamet's Elio is one of the great performances of how singularly weird human beings are, especially when they're alone, especially when they're teenagers, especially when they're only children to expats and trained to perform.

In 2009, Hilton Als wrote in the New Yorker about the ways O'Connor's work's confronted and confounded the norms of her readers:

Both of the presumed frontrunners feel like challengers: The Shape of Water, with its offbeat fantasy, sudden violence, and, um, interspecies sex; and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which delights in confounding viewer expectations and has endured controversies about an ill - conceived racial subplot.

Here at ScreenAnarchy, we are pleased to feature contributions from dozens of people located all over the world, writing about the movies that intrigue, confound, anger, and delight them.

There's something confounding about Mountains May Depart, the latest film from Chinese master Jia Zhang - ke (Platform, Unknown Pleasures).