"Metrics"

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When did we start calling statistics "Metrics"? Was it the same time we started "thinking outside the box" or "shifting paradigms"? Was it when we started "pinging" people or "leveraging" our "deliverables".

I started making a good old fashioned paper chart of my some of my sales numbers and Rick asked what I was doing. I replied "Charting metrics". Hmmmm. It seems moving from the corporate world to the world of the handmade cottage industry hasn't been as seamless as I thought.

Oh, Rick wanted me to mention that statistics are not the same as metrics. He has some grand theory about it, but I don't know. Anyone care to comment?