Your 'timer program' report has been received. Scroll down through the document to see any comments I might have inserted, and my final comment at the end.
** Your General Comment **
** Describe what you see on your first 10 clicks **
When I clicked the Click the Time Event button 10 times, the numbers went down from one to ten, and it gave two sets of numbers for each number 1-10. The first sets of numbers all started with 22.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 2688.938 2688.938
2 2689.078 .140625
3 2689.234 .15625
4 2689.406 .171875
5 2689.563 .15625
6 2689.719 .15625
7 2689.875 .15625
8 2690.047 .171875
9 2690.203 .15625
10 2690.359 .15625
11 2690.531 .171875
12 2690.688 .15625
13 2690.859 .171875
14 2691.031 .171875
15 2691.188 .15625
16 2691.359 .171875
17 2691.516 .15625
18 2691.688 .171875
19 2691.844 .15625
20 2692.016 .171875
21 2692.172 .15625
22 2692.344 .171875
23 2692.5 .15625
24 2692.672 .171875
25 2692.844 .171875
26 2693.031 .1875
27 2693.188 .15625
28 2693.375 .1875
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
0.1617187
I got my result by adding up the first 20 intervals and then dividing it by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.140625, 1
.15625, 13
.171875, 11
.1875, 2
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
The Timer program reported that number so frequently, because that time is the clock time between intervals, and since the clock times were so close together in that group it probably just reported the same number. The Timer program is not useless because it gives us the right clock time.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
In the last column if the number in the time interval ranged from .17-.18 then the number in the last column were usually the same. This tells us that the Timer program wouldn't be a very reliable source to use.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
4.8125
5.53125
5.46875
6.234375
6.03125
5.765625
4.84375
4.828125
4.8125
5.90625
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
We would expect this because we took a lot longer in seconds to click the button each time.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
My answer is D, because the Timer program has more accurate and consistent numbers in the .0001 position.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
My original data got erased the first time I tried to do the save as window, so I have different numbers than the original data.
event number clock time time interval
1 22.04688 22.04688
2 27.92188 5.875
3 34.71875 6.796875
4 42.10938 7.390625
5 50.375 8.265625
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2 hours
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