Exercise 6.1 You want to determine if meditation can reduce resting pulse rate. Participants were recruited and randomly assigned to one of three groups: Members of Group 1 (the control group) will not meditate; members of Group 2 (the first treatment group) will meditate for 30 minutes per day on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays over the course of 2 weeks; and members of Group 3 (the second treatment group) will meditate for 30 minutes a day 6 days a week, Monday through Saturday. At the end of the study, you gathered the resting pulse rates for each participant. Data set: Ch 06 - Exercise 01A.sav Codebook Variable:group Definition:Group number Type:Categorical (1 = No meditation, 2 = Meditates 3 days, 3 = Meditates 6 days) Variable:pulse Definition:Pulse rate (beats per minute) Type:Continuous

Run each criterion of the pretest checklist (normality, homogeneity of variance, and n) and discuss your findings?