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proposal.md

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 Argument Project
 
-Nelson Mason - Date: 10/29/2025
+Nelson Mason - Date: 11/3/2025
 
 ## Overarching Question
 
 ### What central question are you interested in exploring? Why are you interested in exploring this question?
 
-*This should be the big picture question that you ask; use at least 5
-sentences to describe why you are interested in it.*
-
 I want to know about what relationship exists, if any, between an adult (18 +) 
 person's age and their weight (I'll use metric).
 I'm trying to find out at what age, on average, do people experience a dramatic
@@ -21,11 +18,13 @@ over a period of time, but ONLY once.
 
 ### What specific research questions will you investigate?
 
-*List 2-4 specific research questions. Each should be answerable 
-using your data set.*
-
-What number or percentage can be used to accurately indicate a 
+1) What number or percentage can be used to accurately indicate a 
 dramatic change in weight by age? How do I determine what "dramatic" is?
+2) What is the count of people by age? Is this distribution of any significance?
+3) I want to see the main distribution of weight by age. I want to see where
+the probable outliers are (Box Plot).
+4) I want to see the main distribution of weight by age. I want to see the
+probability density (Violin Plot).
 
 ## Data source
 https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/annual_2020.htm
@@ -63,7 +62,4 @@ I will use quantitative analysis methods.
 
 ### How will you use your data set to answer your quantitative questions?
 
-*For each research question, explain what you will do with the data set 
-to answer the question, and how you will present your answer (e.g. a chart or a table).*
-
-I will create several charts.
+I will create 5 charts.