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
3 columns of numbers
Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks
1 175.5156 175.5156
2 175.8438 .328125
3 176.125 .28125
4 176.4063 .28125
5 176.7656 .359375
6 176.9844 .21875
7 177.3906 .40625
8 177.625 .234375
9 178.1563 .53125
10 178.375 .21875
11 178.7344 .359375
12 178.9688 .234375
13 179.1406 .171875
14 179.9531 .8125
15 180.1719 .21875
16 180.3906 .21875
17 180.6406 .25
18 180.8281 .1875
19 181.1875 .359375
20 181.5 .3125
21 181.7813 .28125
22 182.3281 .546875
23 182.5938 .265625
24 183.6094 1.015625
25 183.9844 .375
26 184.3594 .375
27 184.6875 .328125
28 184.875 .1875
29 185.0469 .171875
Your average time interval for 20 time intervals
.29921875
I added the numbers up and divided by 20.
Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed)
.171875, 1
.1875, 1
.21875, 2
.234375, 2
.25, 1
.28125, 4
.3125, 1
.328125, 1
.359375, 3
.40625, 1
.53125, 1
.8125, 1
Your general comment to this point
I don't know exactly what way you wanted me to do the average 2 comment boxes up?
Why did you observe only certain time intervals?
The timer program uses significant figures.
What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals?
There are some negative numbers in the last column. The timer program subtracts the current time from the previous time.
Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths:
4.28125
4.65625
4.0625
4.296875
3.921875
3.828125
3.296875
3.53125
3.5
Your general comment to this point:
Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice?
We are thinking about relaxing, thus the breaths vary. We may also click at different times of the beginning of inspiration.
Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ...
D.
because most of the numbers are usually ending in 875 and 125.
Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program.
relaxed breaths timed at beginning of inspiration
event number clock time time interval
1 18.95313 18.95313
2 22.23438 3.28125
3 25.875 3.640625
4 30.40625 4.53125
5 33.9375 3.53125
35 minutes
The numbers copied from the spreadsheet is not the original numbers. I couldn't get it to save correctly at first and it closed my original timer window.
Your information looks good.