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
1st row is time since app was started, then each subsequent row is the time since the app started and the time between that click and the previous one
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 101.0625 101.0625
2 101.2188 .15625
3 101.375 .15625
4 101.5469 .171875
5 101.7031 .15625
6 101.8594 .15625
7 102.0156 .15625
8 102.1563 .140625
9 102.2969 .140625
10 102.4219 .125
11 102.7344 .3125
12 102.9375 .203125
13 103.1563 .21875
14 103.2813 .125
15 103.375 .09375
16 103.5 .125
17 103.625 .125
18 103.8438 .21875
19 104.0781 .234375
20 104.2969 .21875
21 104.5313 .234375
22 104.7344 .203125
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
.1749 - added all (but the first) and divided by 21
I suspect you missed a 'click' when you got the .31-second interval
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.09375, 1
.125, 4
.140625, 2
.15625, 5
.171875, 1
.203125, 2
.21875, 3
.234375, 2
.3125, 1
Your general comment to this point
Seems to only time on a certain interval.
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
could be the accuracy and interval of the timer control the app uses, or the processing time it takes from mouseclick to recognition by the app
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
considering rounding and omitting pos/neg, the values are .015625 or (.015625 * 2)
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
1055.531
5.421875
5.5
5.5625
5.359375
5.71875
5.765625
6.265625
5.40625
5.796875
Your general comment to this point:
I'm hyperventilating compared to you!
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
There is a max quickness you can click with, and as you approach that speed, there is less variation. With a larger time interval between clicks, there is nothing to regulate an even interval and more time in there to alter the breathing.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
b - I think the shortest interval is .015625 that I've seen
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
1 12.9375 12.9375
2 20.78125 7.84375
3 28.96875 8.1875
4 38.04688 9.078125
5 46.92188 8.875
6 56.85938 9.9375
7 66.98438 10.125
30 minutes
Good work, good answers.