At best metrics could be some hints. It's always possible to game metrics and in bad ways, like the Commissar of the famed Soviet Nail Factory: https://skeptic

At best metrics could be some hints. It's always possible to game metrics and in bad ways, like the Commissar of the famed Soviet Nail Factory: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22375/did-a-soviet-nail-factory-produce-useless-nails-to-improve-metrics https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22375/did-a-sov...