3.1. Study Characteristics and Procedural Analyses
A total of 42 (Normality, equal variance, assumptions about the distribution of the data, or linearity were checked to confirm the use of a non-parametric statistical method. The normality of the data was assessed using the Shapiro–Wilk test (appropriate for small sample sizes of 50 samples or less). The results indicated that the data was not normally distributed (W = 0.91; 