confounding variable

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a variable that could have an effect on the observed/measured outcome (dependent variable) that is not the variable being deliberately changed (independent variable)

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Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.