Mike wants to find out whether campers prefer cotton or nylon sleeping bags. He asks a group of female campers to try both nylon
and cotton sleeping bags. The sleeping bags were rated for softness and warmth. Mike intends to generalize the findings to apply to all campers. What is the confounding variable in Mike's experiment
Confounding variable may be explained as a that variable which is unaccounted for in our experiment and goes on to cause a spurious relationship between the measured and predicted variables in the experiment. This is possible because the unaccounted for variable has a relationship between the variables which are being researched. Confounding variable here is the gender of campers, Using a certain capper gender to generalize on all campers will likely have a Confounding effect on our output as gender effect of the campers may differ.
