%0 Conference Paper %1 mytkowicz_producing_2009 %A Mytkowicz, Todd %A Diwan, Amer %A Hauswirth, Matthias %A Sweeney, Peter F. %B Proceeding of the 14th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems %C Washington, DC, USA %D 2009 %I ACM %K performance bias measurement %P 265--276 %R 10.1145/1508244.1508275 %T Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong! %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1508244.1508275 %X This paper presents a surprising result: changing a seemingly innocuous aspect of an experimental setup can cause a systems researcher to draw wrong conclusions from an experiment. What appears to be an innocuous aspect in the experimental setup may in fact introduce a significant bias in an evaluation. This phenomenon is called measurement bias in the natural and social sciences. %@ 978-1-60558-406-5

@inproceedings{mytkowicz_producing_2009, abstract = {This paper presents a surprising result: changing a seemingly innocuous aspect of an experimental setup can cause a systems researcher to draw wrong conclusions from an experiment. What appears to be an innocuous aspect in the experimental setup may in fact introduce a significant bias in an evaluation. This phenomenon is called measurement bias in the natural and social sciences.}, added-at = {2009-09-29T19:54:43.000+0200}, address = {Washington, {DC,} {USA}}, author = {Mytkowicz, Todd and Diwan, Amer and Hauswirth, Matthias and Sweeney, Peter F.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21e133091a10003cf86b96107e83d79da/dudemeister}, booktitle = {Proceeding of the 14th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems}, doi = {10.1145/1508244.1508275}, interhash = {69f54ef7890118340c2915c2108929fc}, intrahash = {1e133091a10003cf86b96107e83d79da}, isbn = {978-1-60558-406-5}, keywords = {performance bias measurement}, pages = {265--276}, publisher = {{ACM}}, timestamp = {2009-09-29T19:54:43.000+0200}, title = {Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong!}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1508244.1508275}, year = 2009 }