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

I see three columns of numbers. The first of which tells you the number of clicks, the second gives you clock time from the time of opening the program, and the third in time interval between clicks.

Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks

1 8.605469 8.605469

2 8.792969 .1875

3 8.976563 .1835938

4 9.144531 .1679688

5 9.324219 .1796875

6 9.535156 .2109375

7 9.726563 .1914063

8 9.90625 .1796875

9 10.10938 .203125

10 10.28906 .1796875

11 10.45703 .1679688

12 10.63672 .1796875

13 10.80859 .171875

14 11 .1914063

15 11.19141 .1914063

16 11.35938 .1679688

17 11.53906 .1796875

18 11.71875 .1796875

19 11.87891 .1601563

20 12.0625 .1835938

21 12.23047 .1679688

22 12.40234 .171875

Your average time interval for 20 time intervals

0.181949043

I took the sum of 1-20 and divided by 20.

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

.1601563,1

.1679688,3

.171875,1

.179875,6

.1835938,2

.1875,1

.1914063,3

.203125,1

.2109375,1

Your general comment to this point

Why did you observe only certain time intervals?

The program seems to round in multiples of 25. May be flawed, but still useful in getting a close estimate.

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

Maybe that it is more accurate than it appears.

Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:

7.640625

8.070313

8.232422

8.613281

8.761719

9.542969

9.923828

10.17578

11.97852

Your general comment to this point:

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

Because when we did the fact clicks it was based on voluntary action and with the breaths it was involuntary.

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

Accurate to .1 seconds.

Because their are no numbers .01 or lower.

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

30 minutes

My home computer would not allow me to create the spread sheet.