a. Introduction: i. Literature Review: Research is underway to find out whether obesity is the result of genetics or simply a lack of exercise and poor eating habits. A peer-reviewed article by A Li and D Meyre titled Challenges in Reproducibility of Genetic Association Studies: Lessons Learned from the Obesity Field mentions that genetics has a substantial role in obesity, but because scientists cannot reproduce the gene and prove it to be true, they cannot guarantee that genetics are the result of obesity (Li & Meyre, 2012). A similar article reviewed by David U. Gorkin and Bing Ren states that there are 75 positions on the human DNA sequence related to obesity, but direct evidence is still lacking in this research (Gorkin, D & Ren, B, 2014). ii. Introduction of the hypothesis: the hypothesis is; Obese people believe they are obese due to genetics. iii. Variables related to the HINTS survey: The variables in my hypothesis are related to the HINTS survey because the independent variable, obesity, is the same. The dependent variable is genetics and is the same as in the HINTS.b survey. Methods:i. More about the hypothesis: Most obese people don't want to take responsibility for their obesity. Obese people have difficulty accepting the fact that they are obese due to their lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating habits. If more obese people could recognize that they are not obese due to their genetics, it could motivate them to get fit and healthy. ii. How the HINTS data was collected: Researchers collected results from 7,412 respondents, the research question asked: “To what extent do you believe obesity is hereditary. Would you say...” The answer...... at the heart of the paper......tp://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html• Wang, C & Coups, EJ. (2010, March 3). Casual beliefs about obesity and associated health behaviors: Results from a population-based survey. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842229/• TIPS. (2007). To what extent do you believe obesity is hereditary? Would you say… Retrieved from http://hints.cancer.gov/question-details.aspx?dataset=2007&qid=655&qdid=2318&method=Combined• Li, A., & Meyer, D. (2012, April 13). Challenges in the reproducibility of genetic association studies: lessons learned from the obesity field. Retrieved from wwww.nature.com/ijo/journal/v37/n4/full/ijo201282a.html• Gorkin, D.U., and Ren, B. (2014, March 20). Genetics: bridging the gap on the culprits of obesity. Retrieved from xeries.calstate.edu/fullerton/metasearch/record?group=2014-03-21-0003000&resultset=009356&startRecord=13