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 **
From what I can tell it shows you how long it takes between intervals of clicks.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 155.4414 155.4414
2 155.5859 .1445313
3 155.7344 .1484375
4 155.8672 .1328125
5 156.0156 .1484375
6 156.1641 .1484375
7 156.3125 .1484375
8 156.457 .1445313
9 156.6211 .1640625
10 156.7539 .1328125
11 156.9023 .1484375
12 157.0508 .1484375
13 157.1953 .1445313
14 157.3594 .1640625
15 157.5313 .171875
16 157.668 .1367188
17 157.8281 .1601563
18 157.9727 .1445313
19 158.1367 .1640625
20 158.2813 .1445313
21 158.4297 .1484375
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
0.149415
I subtracted 158.4297 from 155.4414 and divided the answer by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.1445313, 5
.1484375, 7
.1328125, 2
.1640625, 3
.171875, 1
.1601563, 1
.1367188, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I didn't happen...you stated that to prove a point. I am not sure why it didn't record times like .1830. It could happen if you kept trying eventually. Yes it is flawed because there are other problems like the funtioning of your computer (is it in good condition?). That doen not mean it is useless, but it is not perfect...nothing is.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
It tells us the if we clicked the mouse faster or slower with each click. It tells us that the TIMER program does help us in understanding averages and + or - flaws.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
37.24219
2.585938
2.5625
3.140625
2.953125
3.023438
3
3.109375
2.960938
2.8125
** Your general comment to this point: **
I am only getting the Timer and the seconds in between intervals. I will enter the start time and the seconds between each time. If there is a way to get all three columns let me know.
The data you report above and below has three columns. The first column just reads 1, 2, 3, ... . The second reads clock time, the third reads time intervals.
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
Because we are not clicking in complete succession and we may breathe deeper the first time than the next especially since i almost passed out by the 10th breathe. Our physiology canges with each breathe and it changes our times.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
d. Because within our experiments we find that most intervals were more decimal points back than .0001 and since the TIMER program is not perfect it gives us the best second interval possible which is pretty good.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
2 37.24219 0.59375
3 39.82813 2.585938
4 42.39063 2.5625
5 45.53125 3.140625
6 48.48438 2.953125
7 51.50781 3.023438
8 54.50781 3
9 57.61719 3.109375
10 60.57813 2.960938
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