Obfuscatory measurement
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''Obfuscatory measurement'' is the practice, deliberate or not, of obscuring the true performance of a system through the use of misleading measures. Many of the traditional and widely used measures of computer system performance are obfuscatory: they measure the wrong things, the right things wrongly, or nothing at all. Several obfuscatory measures are considered; those aspects of the system they are thought to measure are contrasted with those that they actually measure; and alternative measu…
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Date:
July 25, 1977
Creator:
Stevens, D. F.
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