The Hawthorne effect is a possible risk in habit tracking, but the act of tracking itself is more likely to cause behavior change.

“i'm sure it's it's a possible risk but um i think what's more likely to happen is rather than not being able to see what's going on assuming you're being honest with yourself i mean you know it's it's it can be hard to honestly observe your own behavior you know we have a lot of biases and stories for why we do what we do so but assuming you're doing that to the best degree possible i think you're probably still going to get a good idea of what the cue is what i think is more likely to happen if there is some influence on your behavior is you may find yourself changing the behavior anyway just because you're tracking it”