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 first column is the time since the start of the program, the second column is the time between each click
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 57.56201 57.56201
2 57.67212 .1101074
3 57.76611 9.399414E-02
4 57.875 .1088867
5 57.98413 .1091309
6 58.09399 .1098633
7 58.21899 .125
8 58.43701 .2180176
9 58.54712 .1101074
10 58.64111 9.399414E-02
11 58.76611 .125
12 58.85913 9.301758E-02
13 58.96899 .1098633
14 59.09399 .125
15 59.18701 9.301758E-02
16 59.29712 .1101074
17 59.42212 .125
18 59.51611 9.399414E-02
19 59.64111 .125
20 59.76611 .125
21 59.82813 6.201172E-02
22 60.09399 .2658691
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.110205
I subtracted my first time from the 20th time and divided by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.09301758, 2
.09399414, 3
.1088867, 1
.1091309, 1
.1098633, 2
.1101074, 3
.125, 6
.2180176, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
Yes, perhaps the program is wrong to report so many significant figures when it can't be that accurate.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
It seems that program uses multiples of .015625 to record times
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
3.984375
4.140625
4.265625
3.859375
4.171875
4.046875
3.765625
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
Not only are there less times to be duplicated, but when they are spaced out, it is much harder to click at the same time intervals.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
B, judging by the differences of the intervals.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
breaths
event number clock time time interval
1 56658.09 56658.09
2 56662.08 3.984375
3 56666.22 4.140625
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Probably 30 minutes, but I did not work continuously.
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Good. This was originally submitted without identifying information, and I hope it has by now been posted to your access page.