The accompanying underscoring pattern appears in the article “Women’s and Men’s Eating Behavior Following Exposure to Ideal-Body Images and Text”

(Communications Research [2006]: 507–529). Women either viewed slides depicting images of thin female models with no text (treatment 1); viewed the same slides accompanied by diet and exercise-related text (treatment 2);

or viewed the same slides accompanied by text that was unrelated to diet and exercise (treatment 3). A fourth group of women did not view any slides (treatment 4).

Participants were assigned at random to the four treat ments. Participants were then asked to complete a questionnaire in a room where pretzels were set out on the tables. An observer recorded how many pretzels participants ate while completing the questionnaire. Write a few sentences interpreting this underscoring pattern.
Treatment: 2 1 4 3 Mean number of pretzels consumed:
0.97 1.03 2.20 2.65