%0 Journal Article %J Commun. ACM %D 1986 %T How Not to Lie with Statistics: The Correct Way to Summarize Benchmark Results %A Fleming, Philip J. %A Wallace, John J. %C New York, NY, USA %I ACM %P 218–221 %R 10.1145/5666.5673 %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/5666.5673 %V 29 %X 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.