Standards for comparison

Usage examples of metrics.

Manfred leans forward, one elbow on the table, one eye focused on inner space as a hot-burning thread of consciousness barks psephological performance metrics at him, analysing the game ahead.

We are on the edge of a period of prolonged economic growth, with annual averages in excess of twenty percent, if the Council of Europe's predictor metrics are anything to go by.

She can see his listing on the reputation servers, hovering about thirty points above IBM: All the metrics of integrity, effectiveness and goodwill value him above even that most fundamentalist of open-source computer companies.

Sides, I know you want me socialized up with my grade metrics, but isn't that what sideband's for?

Some of the maintenance metrics she can read from her privileged viewpoint are worrying.

Look for a credit bubble, distributed trust metrics devaluing suddenly as people catch some kind of weird religion, something like that.

Science does not understand or provide metrics for far more than it does understand.

There are no scorefile metrics with hidden point tables that some smug researcher can tweak in order to make the parishioners jump.

We accept money, approved modal barter, agalmic kudos metrics, temporal futures, and—"

His use of kilometers confused his host, who had never heard of metrics, of course, and resisted thinking in meters and centimeters and kilometers.

My colleagues would chide me for not using metrics, but the details of the final report are going to be in all the papers tomorrow, and that's a convenient size reference to use.