timer program

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 lists a set of numbers ranging from 10.92188 to 12.45313; the second column lists time intervals

** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **

1 79.82813 79.82813

2 80.01563 .1875

3 80.1875 .171875

4 80.35938 .171875

5 80.54688 .1875

6 80.71875 .171875

7 80.90625 .1875

8 81.04688 .140625

9 81.23438 .1875

10 81.40625 .171875

11 81.59375 .1875

12 81.76563 .171875

13 81.9375 .171875

14 82.10938 .171875

15 82.26563 .15625

16 82.45313 .1875

17 82.625 .171875

18 82.76563 .140625

19 82.95313 .1875

20 83.125 .171875

** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **

.16444 Added up all time intervals and divided by 19

** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **

.140625, 2

.15625, 1

.171875, 9

.1875, 7

** Your general comment to this point **

** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **

Not sure

** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **

The TIMER program appears to be either very precise, or programmed to log only certain time intervals

** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **

3.390625

3.578125

3.71875

3.96875

4

4.046875

4.046875

4.046875

4.25

** Your general comment to this point: **

** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **

?

** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **

C

** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **

Inhalation exercise

event number clock time time interval

1 539.0625 539.0625

2 543.1094 4.046875

3 546.6875 3.578125

4 550.9375 4.25

5 554.9375 4

6 558.9844 4.046875

7 563.0313 4.046875

8 567 3.96875

9 570.7188 3.71875

10 574.1094 3.390625

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A few minutes--not too long

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Good data.

You need to attempt to answer all questions. Even if your answer consists of additional questions requesting specific clarification, you should be very specific about what you do and do not understand about the situation.