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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 January 2015 01:49:26AM 3 points [-]

Sales is objectively measurable, but it is not easily measurable. At least, for big ticket items like cars, the sample size is small so there is a lot of noise. It is easy to measure whether one person is better than another, but it is harder to measure continuous progress.