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S. Government agency cannot do this. What can they do? One thing they can do is to “re-evaluate” the quantitative factors, collect more data, and hopefully find a way to have the quantitative results coincide with their intuition. Some may view this as cheating. It is not! Quantitative factors are not the only considerations. Qualitative factors may be just as important, or even more important than the quantitative factors. Decisionmakers would be shirking their responsibility by deciding on the basis of the quantitative factors alone.
Intuitive judgment has two sources of inconsistency: in the application of weights attributed to dimensions, and in the aggregation of information across dimensions. Today, with AHP and readily available computer technology, we can take advantage of the linear compensatory model20. Principles and Axioms of the Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP is built on a solid yet simple theoretical foundation. The basic ‘model’ is one that almost every executive is familiar with — a pie chart. If we draw a pie chart, the whole of the chart represents the goal of the decision problem.
Ordinal numbers are sometimes referred to as rank numbers. Likert scales used in many marketing studies are ordinal numbers. 12 A mathematical definition of interval is: can be subjected to a linear transformation, or is invariant under the transformation Y = a X + b. 11 34 Decisions By Objectives Ratio13 Ratio level data (sometimes called ratio scale) is the highest level, having Nominal, Ordinal, and Interval properties, as well as the property of ratios. Corresponding ratios on different parts of a ratio scale have the same meaning.