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@inproceedings{citeulike:4277653, 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.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Mytkowicz, Todd and Diwan, Amer and Hauswirth, Matthias and Sweeney, Peter F.}, booktitle = {ASPLOS '09: Proceeding of the 14th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4277653}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1508244.1508275}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1508244.1508275}, doi = {10.1145/1508244.1508275}, isbn = {978-1-60558-406-5}, keywords = {bias, experiment, ibm, interesting}, location = {Washington, DC, USA}, pages = {265--276}, posted-at = {2009-04-06 09:57:18}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong!}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1508244.1508275}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4277653 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4277653 N2 - 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. CY - Washington, DC, USA SN - 978-1-60558-406-5 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 276 TI - Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong! PB - ACM T2 - ASPLOS '09: Proceeding of the 14th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems SP - 265 KW - bias KW - experiment KW - ibm KW - interesting AU - Mytkowicz, Todd AU - Diwan, Amer AU - Hauswirth, Matthias AU - Sweeney, Peter PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1508244.1508275 ER -