Writting a research question?
Trying to figure if I am doing this write. The basics is does knowledge about prevention on obesity truly have effect on someone being obese?
1.The dependent variable for this evaluation is Obesity
2.The dependent variable can be though of as a continuous variable by saying, “Obesity can be measured by being overweight by at least 40 pounds.
3.The dependent variable can be thought of as a categorical variable saying, “Whether or not the person is obese.”
4.The most important independent variable for my evaluation is knowledge about prevention of obesity.
5.The independent variable can be thought of a categorical variable by saying, “Whether or not a person taken 4 or more seminars about prevention of obesity.
6.The other independent control variables are age (adults 18+) and geographic location (Tennessee).
7.When controlling for age and geographic location, what effect does the knowledge about prevention of obesity have on he/she being obese?
here are two hypothesis: 8.When controlling for age and geographic location, people who has taken at 4 or more seminars on prevention obesity are more likely to be obese than a person who has taken less than 4 seminars on prevention of obesity.
9.When controlling for age and geographic location, when a person who goes to 4 or more seminars on obesity prevention has a lower BMI than a person who goes to less than 4 seminars on obesity prevention.
does it look right though what i got?
I believe the stuff you have written here would be placed under the Methods section of your paper. The research question is just that – a question. It states what you plan to test for and in which direction you are looking for results. For example, This study seeks to determine if prior knowledge about obesity lessens the occurrence of obesity in the adult population.