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 **
The program lists the number of the click, the total time the program has ran, and the time from the previous click to the new one.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 191.6094 191.6094
2 191.9063 .296875
3 192.0156 .109375
4 192.125 .109375
5 192.25 .125
6 192.3438 .09375
7 192.5 .15625
8 192.5781 .078125
9 192.7031 .125
10 192.8125 .109375
11 192.9375 .125
12 193.0469 .109375
13 193.1875 .140625
14 193.2969 .109375
15 193.4219 .125
16 193.5469 .125
17 193.6563 .109375
18 193.7656 .109375
19 193.8906 .125
20 194 .109375
21 194.1406 .140625
22 194.25 .109375
23 194.375 .125
24 194.4844 .109375
25 194.5938 .109375
26 194.7031 .109375
27 194.8125 .109375
28 194.9219 .109375
29 195.0313 .109375
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.13828125
I did it the long way of simply adding lines 2 through 21 and dividing by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.296875,1
.09375,1
.15625,1
.078125,1
.140625,1
.125,6
.109375,8
** Your general comment to this point **
I did not include my first time in the answer because it was over 191 seconds.
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
i have no idea.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
the most frequent time interval to the next time interval is .01563 which happened four times almost 6 times.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
5.484375
5.671875
4.9375
5.640625
5.375
5.984375
5.421875
5.234375
5.03125
5.6875
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
Because our relaxed breaths may not be exactly the same. As we take more and more breaths, our lungs can expand therefore the next breath will be a little deeper. Also, we may not be clicking the mouse at the same time at each beginning of breaths.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
b. This is simply a guess. I do not think that there is a way for me to determine it's accuracy.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
Breaths
event number clock time time interval
1 1782.969 1782.969
2 1788.453 5.484375
3 1794.125 5.671875
4 1799.063 4.9375
5 1804.703 5.640625
6 1810.078 5.375
7 1816.063 5.984375
8 1821.484 5.421875
9 1826.719 5.234375
10 1831.75 5.03125
11 1837.438 5.6875
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