The 'Metric Era' is demoralizing

"Gotta collect a bunch of data for Tom!"

Nice little pull quote from here:

Last but not least, gathering the data takes time and energy away from the activities that are supposed to get measured – just ask doctors and nurses, or the chairs of academic departments. For all these reasons and more, metric fixation often leads to demoralization.

I mostly agree with this quote. There are analytic pro…