How Much Weight Have Senior Kinesiology Students Gained?
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Abstract
Several research studies have examined the belief of freshman 15 myth as it is well known that an amount of weight gained during a student’s first year at college in the United States and Canada. However, mixed results have been found that freshmen gain as much as 15 pounds, whereas other suggests minimal weight gain. There is still limited information available to systematically examine the weight gained in Kinesiology/Exercise Science major senior college students. PURPOSE: The present study was to examine the senior college student’s body weight compared to the ideal body weight. METHODS: Two hundred and thirty-two exercise science major students were participated in the study (age = 21.6± .72 yrs; Height = 170.8 ± 12.2 cm; weight = 77.8 ± 14.8 kg; Body mass index = 26.8 ± 5.0 kg·m2; Body Fat% = 19.2 ± 8.2%; ideal body weight = 69.8±14.2 kg) and the ideal body weight was calculated based on using the body fat % obtained by the bio-electrical impedance device. Descriptive for all variables were calculated and Pearson product-moment correlations were calculated to test the association between the actual weight and the ideal body weight. Dependent t-tests were performed to examine the statistically significant difference between the actual weight and the ideal body weight and also examine the ideal body weight differences between the male and female students. RESULTS: The difference between the actual weight and the ideal weight was 5.88 kg for male students and 10.79 kg for female students. A strong correlation was observed between the actual weight and the ideal body weight, r=.832 (p < 0.01) and r=.829 (p < 0.01) for male and female students, respectively. The dependent t-test indicated that there are significant differences between the actual body weight and the ideal body weight for both male (t(133)=9.1, p < 0.01) and female (t(97)=14.49, p<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: This finding demonstrates that even exercise science major students were heavier than their ideal body weight and female students are heavier than male students. Future researchers should focus on the mechanisms of college student’s weight gain to initiate the college level interventions to prevent unhealthy weight gain.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".