I read the article. It’s just that the whole assigning a number to a vague phrase thing seems awfully hokey. If one of my colleagues reported to me that “the plant was making pretty good oxygen, which is an improvement over last week’s good oxygen, and meets the customer’s minimum requirements of okay oxygen” I’d probably slap them.
I understand it’s probably just a way of spinning it to the public, but I prefer objectiveness (which is probably not a word) to spin. But I’m sure I’m in the minority.