Layne Is Trying to Watch Less Television

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Essay

Layne is trying to watch less television. Her friend Ryan is a psychologist who agrees to help her. He creates a treatment plan that involves giving Layne $5 for every day that she watches fewer than 90 minutes of television. He monitors her television watching for 3 days, treats her for 3 days and monitors her, and then just monitors her for 3 more days.
Imagine that Ryan and Layne's study finds the following pattern of results. Explain whether Ryan and Layne should conclude that the $5 treatment is effective at decreasing television viewing and whether they should be concerned by an instrumentation threat. (In the graph, B indicates baseline and T indicates treatment.)

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