Science+Experiment

=Scientific Method = Teasing and Weight
 * Topic:**

Is there a relationship between a teenager's weight and the amount of teasing they endure?
 * Question:**

Obesity occurs when a person eats more calories then their body burns up. In the last couple of years obesity had sky rocketed. Now 16 to 33 percent of kids and teens are over weight. Obesity usually begins during ages 5-6 and 10-13. If you are obese in your adolescence years there is an 80 percent chance you will be an obese adult. http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/obesity_in_children_and_teens Physiologists are starting to relate hormones to eating habits. Hormones can tell your brain anything from "keep eating more" to "go for the junk food." The hormones Leptin and Insulin inhibit the development of obesity when the taking in of fat and calories increases. Some people respond very well to these hormones and they don't gain weight during these periods of overeating. But others are not as lucky. Leptin and Insulin are one of the major factors that can cause weight gain. http://www.news-medical.net/?id=24545 Obesity can take a toll on emotional health as well as physical health. Studies have found that obese teens are more likely to be teased and taunted than normal-weight kids. "Among normal-weight youngsters, almost 11 percent said they were victims of bullying, compared with 14 percent of overweight youngsters and nearly 19 percent of obese youngsters." http://www.bridges4kids.org/articles/2004/5-04/ContraCosta5-3-04.html
 * Background Information:**

If I give 20 people the survey I designed then the data will conclude that obese teens do indure more teasing than normal-weight teens.
 * Hypothesis:**

1) Design a survey that has the questions:
 * Procedure:**
 * How much do you weigh?
 * What is your height?
 * Have you ever been teased before?

2) Give your survey to 20 or more people. Try to get different samples of people by their look, clique, grades, race.

3) Collect all of the data.

4) Make a graph like the one that is displayed.

5) Summarize the results.


 * Materials:**
 * Word processing computer
 * 20 or more participants willing to take your survey
 * A survey
 * Printer
 * Pencil
 * Folder (to put the surveys in)

Do the experiment.
 * Experiment:**

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 * Data/Results:

In my hypothseis I stated, " If I give 20 people the survey I designed then the data will conclude that obese teens do indure more teasing than normal-weight teens." I was right. From that data that I colected you can see that over weight teens do get teased more than normal-weight teens. From the results you can also see that the participants the weighed more ansered 5 for almost all of the questions. Not only do they get teased about their weight, but their height, clothes, intelligence and apperance too. My survey's results also show that evreyone gets teased. Some of the people who took my survey were very thin, but they still got teased about something. Even average people get teased. No one that took my survey had answered 0 for all the questions. That means that out of 26 people, all of them had been teased about something. The people who had been teased more than others in my test thought that they were very over weight. Some of the people who said they were very over weight were skinny. That proves that teasing can affect your mind and the way you think. I think that I made a mistake by not taking the people who were took the survey into an isolated place. Sometimes when around their peers people become self-conscious. If I had taken the participants one by one in an isolated area I think that they would have answered more truthfully giving me more accurate results. I really enjoyed doing this experiment.
 * Conclusion:**