Table 2.

Latent clsasses, overall probabilities, and conditional probabilities of endorsing individual contributors to obesity as moderately to extremely important in a 2013 sample of 1244 4th year medical students from 50 U.S. medical schools.

% Of sample	Probabilities
	Overall 100%	Class 1: multi-cause 28%	Class 2: physiological 27%	Class 3: behavioral/social 23%	Class 4: energy balance 22%
Non-behavioral causes
Genetic factors	83%	98% ↑	89% ↑	74% ↓	69% ↓
Psychological problems	76%	99% ↑	71%	92% ↑	39% ↓
Marketing/advertising of unhealthy foods	69%	94% ↑	55% ↓	82% ↑	43% ↓
Endocrine disorder	62%	100% ↑	98% ↑	19% ↓	16% ↓
Food addiction	60%	94% ↑	57%	66%	19% ↓
Metabolic defect	57%	100% ↑	94% ↑	12% ↓	9% ↓
Behavioral causes
Overeating	98%	100%	98%	99%	97%
Physical inactivity	97%	100%	96%	97%	97%
Poor nutritional knowledge	92%	100% ↑	92%	99% ↑	81% ↓
High fat diet	85%	94% ↑	87%	84%	76% ↓
Restaurant eating	61%	93% ↑	35% ↓	79% ↑	39% ↓
Lack of willpower	55%	82% ↑	41% ↓	55%	38% ↓
Repeated dieting (weight cycling)	50%	92% ↑	30% ↓	65% ↑	10% ↓

↑/↓ Arrows indicate conditional probability more than 5% greater/less than overall sample probability.