{"id":7564,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/confounding_variable\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:14","slug":"confounding_variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/confounding_variable\/","title":{"rendered":"Confounding variable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unforeseen and unaccounted-for factor that generates an apparent association between two variables because it has a prior association with both. &nbsp;For example, height and school achievement may both be associated with socioeconomic status. &nbsp;Thus, an apparent link between size and success could be said to be subject to confounding by social class. &nbsp;Such a variable jeopardizes both the reliability and validity of a study.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"causal_pathway\">Causal pathway<\/a>, <a href=\"confound\">Confound<\/a>, <a href=\"contamination\">Contamination<\/a>, <a href=\"experimental_method\">Experimental method<\/a>, <a href=\"reliability\">Reliability<\/a>, <a href=\"validity\">Validity<\/a>, Variable<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unforeseen and unaccounted-for factor that generates an apparent association between two variables because it has a prior association with both. &nbsp;For example, height and school achievement may both be associated with socioeconomic status. &nbsp;Thus, an apparent link between size and success could be said to be subject to confounding by social class. &nbsp;Such a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/confounding_variable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Confounding variable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}