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Some authors [\textit{E. W. Cheney} and \textit{A. Sharma}, Can. J. Math. 16, 241--252 (1964; Zbl 0128.29001) and \textit{A. Lupaş}, Mathematica, Cluj 8(31), 287--296 (1966; Zbl 0171.30902)]\ have shown that for \(f\) convex in \([0,\infty)\), the sequence \(\{L_n(f,x)\}\) is decreasing in \((0,a]\) where \[ L_n(f,x)=(1-x)^ n\sum_{\nu=0}^ \infty \binom{n+\nu+1}{\nu} x^ \nu f\left(\frac{\nu}{n}\right),\qquad n=1,2,\dots, \] is the so-called Baskakov operator. In the paper, a certain converse assertion is proved: It is shown that \(f\) with \(f''\) continuous and bounded on \([0,\infty)\) is convex in \([0,a^*]\) with \(a^*=a/(1-a)\), \(a<1\), provided \(\{L_n(f,x)\}\) is decreasing in \((0,a]\).