Mirrored Three-View Cinematography in Small Animal Locomotion Studies

Abstract

Present athletic practices in stop-watch timing require the median of three watch times to be declared “official” time. Theoretical evidence is available that the standard error of the median is larger than the standard error of the mean when sampling is from a single, normal population. The present investigation was designed to determine if, under actual race conditions, the same relationship between the mean and median time exists. In the two independent experiments described the standard error of the median was observed to be larger than that of the mean.