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How would a person conduct a study on obesity within the process of the scientific method? |
As if the researcher was proposing a study to a panel of scientists in hopes of securing funding to conduct the research project. Like anything else, you would need one or more treatment groups and a control group. If you are working with humans, you have to get them to sign a form stating they understand what you are doing, and you also usually have to get approval to perform the experiment (basically showing you will not harm the subjects). You might have something like - group 1) control, do what they usually do, group 2) eat a specific diet, group 3) eat the diet and exercise a certain amount each day. I have done studies like you propose and one caveat is that humans make horrible subjects. When they leave the lab, they might eat stuff they are not supposed to eat. They may not be completely truthful about their food consumption and/or exercise. because of this, it is often more fruitful to observe people eating without their knowing you are looking at their eating as part of the study, but it is sometimes hard to get approval for something like this as you are deceiving the subject (telling them you are trying to see, say, how they would complete a puzzle while serving them food and actually watching how much they eat). Have fun! |
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