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How not to lie with statistics: the correct way to summarize benchmark results

By Philip J. Fleming, John J. Wallace
Communications of the ACM, March 1986, Vol. 29 No. 3, Pages 218-221
10.1145/5666.5673
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Using the arithmetic mean to summarize normalized benchmark results leads to mistaken conclusions that can be avoided by using the preferred method: the geometric mean.

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