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
1 0 0
2 .15625 .15625
3 .34375 .1875
4 .515625 .171875
5 .71875 .203125
6 .890625 .171875
7 1.078125 .1875
8 1.265625 .1875
9 1.4375 .171875
10 1.59375 .15625
Times are very close
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 0 0
2 .15625 .15625
3 .34375 .1875
4 .515625 .171875
5 .71875 .203125
6 .890625 .171875
7 1.078125 .1875
8 1.265625 .1875
9 1.4375 .171875
10 1.59375 .15625
11 1.765625 .171875
12 1.921875 .15625
13 2.109375 .1875
14 2.296875 .1875
15 2.484375 .1875
16 2.671875 .1875
17 2.859375 .1875
18 3.046875 .1875
19 3.21875 .171875
20 3.40625 .1875
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
.1703125
Added up all the numbers and divided by 20
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.171875, 5
.1875, 10
0, 1
.15623, 3
.203125, 1
Your general comment to this point
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
No, the timer program probably gives an estimate of the times. Not exact times.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
The times are very close, meaning that the times are no completely accurate.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
0
2.265625
2.546875
2.3125
.84375
3.234375
2.984375
2.9375
2.53125
2.65625
Your general comment to this point:
Only one repeated time interval
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
The speed of the clicks are slowed, not causing duplicate estimates.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
A The times are closely related, so it is not measuring time precisely.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
I didn't see the button
Unsure. Worked on it during commercial breaks of Battlestar Galactica. Probably 15 minutes?
Good work. We'll be discussing this in class.