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An essay on how judgment and measurement are different in science and in decision making
Author(s)Thomas Saaty
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
University of Pittsburgh
United States
Publication date: Apr, 2009
Journal: International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy ProcessVol.: 1- Issue: 1
Abstract: In decision making the priority scales are derived objectively after subjective judgments are made, and they reflect the importance of the influences we considered. The process is the opposite of what is done in the physical sciences where the subjectivity of interpreting the final number comes at the end.
Keywords: AHP, Priorities, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Decision making, Judgments, Objective science, Subjective science