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 **
A set of 10 numbers with the time of the clicks and the seconds in between the click.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 19.17188 19.17188
2 19.32813 .15625
3 19.64063 .3125
4 19.82813 .1875
5 19.96875 .140625
6 20.17188 .203125
7 20.5 .328125
8 20.6875 .1875
9 20.84375 .15625
10 21.01563 .171875
11 21.17188 .15625
12 21.34375 .171875
13 21.53125 .1875
14 21.67188 .140625
15 21.85938 .1875
16 22.03125 .171875
17 22.20313 .171875
18 22.375 .171875
19 22.57813 .203125
20 22.9375 .359375
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.19819. I took each time interval and multiplied it by how many times it appeared. Once I got this number for each time time interval, I added them up and divided.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.140625, 2
.15625, 3
.171875, 5
.1875, 4
.203125, 2
.3125, 1
.328125, 1
.359375, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
No, it means it rounds to this number because the clicks are so rapid, that the real number would consist of digits that could not fit on the screen.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
It shows that our hand speeds up or slows down causing negative and positive differences between time intervals.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
7.84375
9.796875
11.34375
9.53125
12.28125
11.21875
12.10938
10.54688
12.92188
12.71875
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
The timer was able to calculate a more accurate time, because the breaths were not as rapid as the clicks.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
C. The TIMER can differentiate up to the hunderths decimal place but after that the numbers start to appear to be more redundant.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
1120.703 9.53125
1132.984 12.28125
1144.203, 11.21875
1156.313, 12.10938
1166.859, 10.54688
1179.781, 12.92188
1192.5, 12.71875
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About 30 minutes
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