Metrics are an essential feature of pay-for-performance contracts, and must be an essential feature of all government programs. This is mostly not the case today, but the situation is improving as the Obama administration links more of its spending to evidence of success, and as non-profit groups, like America Achieves, develop sophisticated new techniques to evaluate government programs.
量化标准是按表现付酬合同的关键特征，也必须成为所有政府项目的关键特征。今天，情况往往并非如此，但随着奥巴马政府将其更多的支出与成功证据挂钩，随着美国成就（America Achieves）等非营利组织开发出完备的政府计划评估新技术，局面正在改善。