On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Bill Potts wrote: > ... > The FULL OED gives the following, for the context in which I used it: > ... > Note that the definition says "especially in Mathematics and Physics." but > does not limit the usage to those fields. It's also used in statistics and > several other fields.
Indeed, including assessments of business success (or failure) in general with *no* measurements of physical quantities; only counts of dollars, clients, products sold, gains of market share, etc. "Metrics" is *not* an appropriate word to substitute for "the SI" or SI. Gene.
