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Around 1775, Condorcet had dreamed of a universal standard that would not be based on any national vanity. 245 years later, I we could make a similar dream, even though at a much smaller scale. Looking at how organizations clumsily measure the performance of their cybersecurity and IAM practice (just to mention these fields), I imagine a time were organizations would cease to continuously reinvent the wheel and start adopting standardized performance measures designed by careful research. This may Such performance measures have the potential to trigger an interesting feedback loop were research would gain access to more data of higher quality and provide organizations with new insights on how to become better at whatever they do.