I wouldn't, because Tukey's HSD was designed as a REPLACEMENT for the ANOVA, not as something to do after an ANOVA. Frankly, there is not often any good reason to do an ANOVA other than that everybody else does it and it is expected. Better off to make a set of focused contrasts that address the research questions you want to answer. If you just must make pairwise contrasts, use the REGWQ instead of the HSD -- it has more power and holds familywise alpha at no more than its nominal level. If you have only three groups, use Fisher's procedure, which, by the way, is the only one of the commonly employed pairwise procedures which requires that you do an ANOVA first (and that the ANOVA be significant). With only three groups it holds familywise error at the nominal level. Although pooled error is commonly employed with Fisher's procedure, one should use individual error terms if heterogeneity of variance is evident.
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