Given that you want to "forget the 'human time' part" I am curious what you think the metric is for. Maybe you meant to respond to a different comment. In this

Given that you want to "forget the 'human time' part" I am curious what you think the metric is for. Maybe you meant to respond to a different comment. In this thread I had asked if anyone had any numbers/estimates for processing time. I wanted these numbers because "It would be interesting to see how many minutes of human time are needed for the average paper return."