Question: A researcher in a counseling center is interested in whether different counseling methods may influence the number of times a patient makes negative comments about him/herself in therapy sessions. The desire is to reduce the number of such negative comments. Thirty-six patients are randomly assigned to one of the four counseling methods. Following are the results.

Method 3 Method 4

8 10 3 4

10 2 17 2

4 8 4 2

3 6 13 4

6 3 20 3

5 12 25 2

6 7 12 5

6 4 14 1

5 6 27 2

Conduct tests of the hypotheses of interest using SPSS® and provide a write-up which includes all of the following:

State appropriate omnibus F test and follow-up hypotheses narratively

Discuss each assumption and test those you can.

Discuss why you analyzed the data the way you did

Discuss statistical significance

State your conclusions