Task 3: A media researcher was interested in the effect of television programs on domestic life. She hypothesized that through ‘learning by watching’, certain programs encourage people to behave like the characters within them. She exposed 54 couples to three popular TV shows, after which the couple were left alone in the room for an hour. The experimenter measured the number of times the couple argued. Each couple viewed all TV shows but at different points in time (a week apart)

and in a counterbalanced order. The TV shows were EastEnders (which portrays the lives of extremely miserable, argumentative, London folk who spend their lives assaulting each other, lying and cheating), Friends (which portrays unrealistically considerate and nice people who love each other oh so very much – but I love it anyway), and a National Geographic program about whales

(this was a control). Test the hypothesis with Friedman’s ANOVA (Eastenders.sav).