@article {Fleming:1986:LSC:5666.5673, title = {How Not to Lie with Statistics: The Correct Way to Summarize Benchmark Results}, journal = {Commun. ACM}, volume = {29}, number = {3}, year = {1986}, pages = {218{\textendash}221}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, abstract = {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.}, issn = {0001-0782}, doi = {10.1145/5666.5673}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/5666.5673}, author = {Fleming, Philip J. and Wallace, John J.} }