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 list of what seems to be the times that i clicked the button
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 94.01563 94.01563
2 94.20313 .1875
3 94.35938 .15625
4 94.52734 .1679688
5 94.68359 .15625
6 94.87109 .1875
7 95.02734 .15625
8 95.19922 .171875
9 95.37109 .171875
10 95.54297 .171875
11 95.69922 .15625
12 95.85547 .15625
13 96.02344 .1679688
14 96.19531 .171875
15 96.35156 .15625
16 96.52344 .171875
17 96.69531 .171875
18 96.86719 .171875
19 97.03906 .171875
20 97.22656 .1875
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.172
I added the 20 numbers then divided by 20
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.15625,6
.1679688, 2
.171875, 8
.1875 , 3
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I think these are approximate times and the system is not flawed it just cant read data that quickly
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
That the program is set up to estimate the time taken between each interval
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
2.976563
3.226563
3.320313
3.492188
3.304688
3.398438
3.519531
3.460938
3.664063
3.597656
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
Because the timer program has had more time to respond
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
C; the timer program only measures accurately to 3 decimal places
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
breath intervals
event number,clock time,time interval
1 , 522.5977 , 522.5977
2 , 525.5742 , 2.976563
3 , 528.8008 , 3.226563
4 , 532.1211 , 3.320313
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20 minutes
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