Sentences with phrase «become useful metrics»

Within this framework, birthweight becomes a useful metric to track because of its link to short - term outcomes, such as one - year mortality rates, as well as long - term outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings, McCoy said.

There were caveats given about overemphasizing the power of the fan — while Askwith said that «From the business side, fandom becomes a useful metric,» he did caution against relying heavily on things like Facebook likes to quantify the passion of an audience.

Not exact matches

Formula Price - Earnings Ratio = Price per share ÷ Earnings per share P / E Calculation for MRVL Price per share = $ 23.25 Earnings per share = $ 0.578 ∴ Price - Earnings Ratio = $ 23.25 ÷ $ 0.578 = 40.2 x The P / E ratio isn't a metric you view in isolation and only becomes useful when you compare it against other similar companies.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

This is why I believe value - added metrics should be one useful component, but that «I worry when it becomes the foundation upon which everything else is constructed.»