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

Right column is the exact time in which the clik to time button was clicked and the right column is the amount of time that has passed between clicks.

1 43.125 43.125

2 43.54688 .421875

3 43.92188 .375

4 44.23438 .3125

5 44.48438 .25

6 44.76563 .28125

7 45.03125 .265625

8 45.29688 .265625

9 45.54688 .25

10 45.76563 .21875

Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks

1 229.4375 229.4375

2 229.5938 .15625

3 229.7344 .140625

4 229.8906 .15625

5 230.0313 .140625

6 230.1719 .140625

7 230.2969 .125

8 230.5313 .234375

9 230.7031 .171875

10 230.9531 .25

11 231.1406 .1875

12 231.4063 .265625

13 231.5625 .15625

14 231.6875 .125

15 231.8438 .15625

16 231.9844 .140625

17 232.1406 .15625

18 232.3125 .171875

19 232.4531 .140625

20 232.7969 .34375

21 232.9688 .171875

Your average time interval for 20 time intervals

0.1765625

I added all the numbers in the right column up and divided by 20, leaving out the first click.

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

.125,2

.140625,5

.15625,5

.171875,3

.1875,1

.234375,1

.25,1

.265625,1

.34375,1

Your general comment to this point

Why did you observe only certain time intervals?

No the timer is not flawed, it is just a kind of an average by rounding the numbers, making it easier to look at the data, becuse 0.0001 will not make that much of a difference. No it does not make this useless, it is just rounded at a particular point.

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

The last column is the difference from one time interval to the next. It tells whether you speed up or slowed down, the negative means the time interval got faster and a postive indicates a slower response.

Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:

2.640625

2.9375

3.140625

2.953125

2.9375

2.578125

3.09375

2.625

2.71875

2.484375

Your general comment to this point:

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

There are two steps in the breathing process, first you inhale as you click where as in the click experient all you have to do is click the button.

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

D. Because it is a computer and it is automatic.

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

1 1756.781 1756.781

2 1759.422 2.640625

3 1762.359 2.9375

It took me about 45 mins