1. What is your hypothesis?
If a person in the US has an income of less than $40,000 a year, then they will have a higher than average BMI.
2. Identify the dependent (produced), independent (manipulated) and control variables in your hypothesis.
Dependent: Higher BMI
Independent: Income
Control: Specific races
3. What is the connection between your science fair project and your senior project EQ?
My experiment addresses an issue that has concerned pediatricians for years -- the obesity epidemic. Each year there is a rise in obesity which leads to chronic illnesses like diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an earlier age. This experiment will help answer my EQ because it not only dives into a major concern in pediatrics, but develops skills through research and analysis which are both very important traits when becoming a doctor.
4. How will you perform the experiment? Include the equipment you plan on using.
Ill be gathering data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Census, and Department of Public Health. I'm sure that will lead me to other sources of data but that is about it. No equipment will be used to build anything.
5:Which category will your project be listed under? (For a full list of categories, go to the iPoly Physics webpage, then to the Science Fair tab.
Behavioral Science
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