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For public institutions, state funds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention — so better grades can, by boosting figures like those, mean more money.

对公立院校来说，州政府的拨款有时部分取决于它们在毕业率和学生保留率等指标上的表现——因此，更好的成绩可以通过提升这类数据而带来更多资金。

Boiling down an individual’s output to simple metrics, such as number of publications or journal impacts, entails considerable savings in time, energy and ambiguity.

把一个人的成果简化为诸如发表数量或期刊影响力之类的简单指标，可以大大节省时间和精力，并减少模糊性。

Unfortunately, the long-term costs of using simple quantitative metrics to assess researcher merit are likely to be quite great.

不幸的是，用简单的量化指标来评估研究人员价值的长期代价可能相当大。