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We also added consideration of prior expectations regarding the likely effect of the surgery on sexual function, in an attempt to control for as many potential confounding variables as possible.
Nature has done a wonderful job of confounding "speculation" on forms of life so far; Myhrvold is, in effect, taking scientists to task for not letting their imaginations run riot.
Summing up, at long last, Mr. Gottlieb concludes that the success of the magazine's rankings "actually depends on confounding most peoples' intuition" about which colleges and universities are the best.
Nevertheless, although we adjusted for several lifestyle variables in our regression analysis, the association of wine intake with pulmonary function may be due to residual confounding by healthy lifestyle as reported previously [ 35 36 37 38 ] .
Limitations of this study include measurement error from self-reporting, residual confounding from use of indicator variables, smoking recidivism, lack of newer measures such as interleukin-6 and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein [52], and lack of data on secondhand smoke.