http://www.osnews.com/story/14710/Lies_Statistics_and_Benchmarks Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:57:43 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?127763 http://osnews.com/thread?127763 As Benjamin Disraeli once said,"there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics".

No matter how you benchmark a computer, *someone* will find a way, no matter how convoluted, to debunk your statistics. Thu, 25 May 2006 16:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Flatline) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?127782 http://osnews.com/thread?127782 Ok, just a coincidence, but still funny to get to the front page, read the article above this one and than this one... =]

Good article by the way. It's a link that should be on the footer of every benchmark page (simple, easy to understand, even if it's not very compreensive and full of examples and details)! Thu, 25 May 2006 17:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JrezIN) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?127795 http://osnews.com/thread?127795 "Ok, just a coincidence, but still funny to get to the front page, read the article above this one and than this one... =]"

You call it a funny coincidence, i just call it funny Thu, 25 May 2006 18:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jcinacio) Comments