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 **
it gives the time at which I clicked and then beside that gives the time between clicks
** Your TIMER data from 20 fast clicks **
1 103.4063 103.4063
2 103.5391 .1328125
3 103.6875 .1484375
4 103.9688 .28125
5 104.0938 .125
6 104.2266 .1328125
7 104.3125 .0859375
8 104.4688 .15625
9 104.5938 .125
10 104.7266 .1328125
11 104.8438 .1171875
12 104.9766 .1328125
13 105.0859 .109375
14 105.2266 .140625
15 105.3594 .1328125
16 105.4766 .1171875
17 105.6172 .140625
18 105.75 .1328125
19 105.875 .125
20 106.0156 .140625
21 106.1484 .1328125
22 106.2656 .1171875
23 106.4219 .15625
** Your average time interval for 20 time intervals **
.130465
I subtracted 106.0156 (the 20th interval) and 103.406 (the start time) and then divided that answer by 20 to come up with an average.
There are only 19 intervals between the first and 20th click.
.28 seconds corresponds to a missed click, and in order to submit data consistent with the instructions you should have run another set of data (which in this case takes only a few seconds).
** Your frequency distribution for the 20 time intervals (interval, number of times it was observed) **
.0859375, 1
.109375, 1
.1171875, 2
.125, 3
.1328125, 5
.140625, 3
.1484375, 1
.15625, 1
.28125, 1
** Your general comment to this point **
** Why did you observe only certain time intervals? **
I think it works like that because it is programmed to give report the time nearest to the times related to those saved in it's programming.
** What did you see when you looked at the differences between time successive time intervals? **
the 4th and 5th numbers behind the decimal point are given in only 25 or 63 and tells me that the timer program gives the time closest to those saved in the programming of the timer.
** Your time intervals for 7 complete breaths: **
10.42969
13.55469
15.85938
18.92188
21.77344
24.35156
26.57813
29.1875
32.11719
34.95313
** Your general comment to this point: **
** Why did you rarely, if ever, observe that same time interval twice? **
we were not following a pattern like clicking time after time, and our rate of breating changes as we become more relaxed and so the intervals are getting longer.
** Do you think this program is accurate to .1 or .01 ... **
A. Because the program seems to be accurate within a tenth, and after that it seems to vary due to a like results in intervals.
** Copy of a few lines of your spreadsheet from the TIMER program. **
Breaths
event number clock time time interval
1 10.42969 10.42969
2 13.55469 3.125
3 15.85938 2.304688
4 18.92188 3.0625
5 21.77344 2.851563
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10 minutes
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Good work, but be sure to see my notes related to two small flaws, one in your data and one in your analysis.