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  1. Overconfidence

    Overconfidence is the tendency to overestimate our ability to make good decisions.  Research 1  indicates that the more experience a manager has, the more likely it is that he or she will be overconfident in making decisions.  Therefore, awareness o...
  2. Install Expert Choice Self host instance

    To install Comparion: Make sure you have saved setup.ini , and then Open a Powershell prompt with elevated Administrator privileges. Navigate to the install directory where  SelfHostSetup.ps1 is located. Make sure your system can run powershe...
  3. Efficient Frontier

    The Efficient Frontier results make it easy to compare several scenarios and see the effects of lower or higher budgets.  Click  to display results: You can select the scenarios to display by using the Scenarios drop-down: When there is mo...
  4. Manage Default Option Sets

    Comparion has a large number of options, such as measurement methods for objectives, measurement methods for alternatives, what to display on evaluation pages, alternative wording for "objectives," and "alternatives," etc.   A Project Manager can...
  5. Alternatives Grid

    Overview The Alternatives Grid  page shows the alternative priorities with respect to the decision goal for All Participants. These priorities are based on the normalized right eigenvector of the geometric average of the judgments for all partic...
  6. Head to Head Analysis

    The Head-to-head- analysis shows how Alternatives compare to each other with respect to an Objective. One alternative is listed on the left side of the graph and the other is listed on the right.  Down the middle of the graph are the objectives ...
  7. Absolute Measurement

    Relative measurement in AHP is performed by comparing two elements, e.g., objectives or alternatives, one to another; whereas absolute measurement is performed on each element, e.g., alternatives, one at a time.  There are several ways this is done ...
  8. Basic and Advanced Mode

    Basic Mode - A revised, simplified user interface. Advanced Mode - Advanced mode shows advanced option(s) on each screen.  This allows advanced users to go deeper into the application.  The left navigation is only displayed when this option is ...
  9. Comparion Sample Models

    What is a Model?   A model  is  a representation of a decision.   Comparion  is a structured decision-making tool designed to help organize and analyze  various factors  based on specific goals and  objectives . By providing a c...
  10. Counterproductive strategies

    To cope with the limitations of decision making, managers have resorted to various decision-making strategies, such as Intuition BOPSAT Rules of thumb Heuristics Simple tradeoffs Nutshell briefings Satisficing Misuse of numbe...