Sentences with phrase «completely confounded»

Another possibility is that the response is not multi-valued to temperature, its just that tree ring response to temperature is completely confounded by multi-correlation with other growth limiting variables.

The men in his compelling short story collection seem to feel the same way: they're comfortable in their skin and their identities, yet on occasion, completely confounded by their place in the world.

I'm not too familiar with the cartoon, having only seen a few episodes (and been completely confounded by them), but Kusama's film has certainly taken the most apparent aspects of the show and skilfully adapted them for live action.

He completely confounded Olmedo with his high bounding spin service, which he put into the backhand or forehand corners with a deceptively similar motion.

She might have predicted that many of her readers would be mildly puzzled, if not completely confounded.

I really think what we're doing, in unison with a zone the pitcher is trying to hit, completely confounds hitters into having to switch in - game.

And Rebecca Ferguson is saddled with a completely confounding character, whose motivation (and purpose) is murky at best.

Even more, in Vidas paralelas Jorge Macchi presents two panes of glass which have shattered in identical patterns, completely confounding our sense of the veracity of time and materiality.

Not exact matches

We start out trusting our parents completely — even when they tell us seemingly confounding or ridiculous things — and overall that's good, because they're right way more often than not.

However this methodology doesn't completely eliminate the risk of a chance confounding factor affecting all five tests e.g. there may be underlying genetic factors that causes both antidepressant use in mothers and autism in babies.

Compared with infants who were breast - fed with no milk supplements, and after adjusting for confounding variables, those completely weaned had 14.2 and 3.6 times the risk of death from diarrhoea and respiratory infections, respectively.

Although we were able to adjust for changes in physical activity, we can not rule out the possibility of residual confounding due to health consciousness if individuals who are eating healthier also make other healthier lifestyle changes not captured completely by our questionnaires.

She delivers a stunningly realistic portrayal of the confounding Camille, innocently thrown from one situation to another, yet at the same time completely in control.

E3 game was maybe Mario + Rabbids for completely and utterly confounding every expectation I had for that game.

A series of flashbacks designed to explain Uncle Charlie's presence, as well as his motives, are more confounding than clarifying; while the reveal isn't completely obvious, it still feels too convenient.

The question of whether value - added measures are truly confounded probably can never be resolved completely with empirical evidence.

This game continues to confound me by appealing to me in terms of concept and aesthetics, and then completely boring me in terms of execution.

This is not completely wrong, although the odd usage of a «signal» that is «confounded» with climatic effects seems backward, and the description does not clearly state that we are speaking here of an individual tree core sample.

When you ignore that confounding factor you can convince yourself that TOBs adjustment is required, determine what bias it would cause and some uncertainty margins that are completely wrong because you assumed there are no confounding factors.

But someone who could so confound reason completely inside out like this (black is white, and white is black, and the existence of orange proves yellow which in turn proves orange exists) could also drum up reasoning like PAS theory...