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 **
This is my Timer experiment, as someone elses Timer Experiment got posted on my Access page.
** Describe what you see on your first 10 clicks **
I see 2 different columns of numbers. The first 2 columns have identical numbers, then it seems to be adding the intervals of time to the first column, and indicating what that interval is with each click of the mouse button.
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 181.6406 181.6406
2 181.8438 .203125
3 182.0625 .21875
4 182.4219 .359375
5 182.625 .203125
6 182.8125 .1875
7 183.0156 .203125
8 183.2031 .1875
9 183.4219 .21875
10 183.6094 .1875
11 183.8125 .203125
12 184.0156 .203125
13 184.2188 .203125
14 184.4219 .203125
15 184.625 .203125
16 184.8281 .203125
17 185.0625 .234375
18 185.2656 .203125
19 185.4844 .21875
20 185.7031 .21875
21 185.9531 .25
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.2031
I subtracted the value at the 20th click from the value at the first and divided by 20.
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.1875, 3
.203125, 10
.21875, 4
.234375, 1
.359375,1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I think it just rounds up or up down in such a way that there are many duplicate times.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
It looks like the numbers almost even out, but then I am wondering about negative too, though it looks like the timer resets itself to zero or something...
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
4.09375
4.921875
5.71875
5.421875
5.078125
5.125
4.46875
5.234375
6.59375
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
The timer perhaps is more accurate at figuring out intervals over a second rather than less than one second.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
A, because it seems like the repeated numbers from the clicking excercise were would repeat starting at the after tenths of a second on the mutiple repeating numbers.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
Unable to cut and paste from Excel at this time because I still have the trial version and am locating my key code to get full access, but I did follow procedure to put it on a spreadsheet.
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