Does anyone have any references to any stated metric based goals of this Merit system they can kindly post links to? I've been engaged with some people on thread who can't find them. I can't find them. If they exist, I would enjoy reading them.
Strategical and tactical goals are often set, but corporations do not go around with a full disclosure policy for everyones curiosity to be satisfied. This forum, while being rather transparent on conceptual goals, does not need to reveal them in quantitative terms, nor the degree to which they are met. That information tends to be limited to a board of direction, and external resources with access to such information are generally bound by a nda agreement.
As suchmoon stated, you can always ask theymos for full disclosure, but grab a confortable chair for the wait.