The cohort can also be regarded as a confounding variable given the way that it acts with the independent variable.
What is a confounding variable?
This is a third variable that is known to have a way of causing changes in the dependent variable and the independent variable.
The cohort is an example of this variable. It has the ability of masking the effects of the independent variable on the dependent one.
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