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  1. Welcome Page

    Enabled by default, the Welcome page is the first page you'll see when you start an evaluation session.  This page can be customized by a project manager, which can help to inform participants about aspects of the decision.
  2. Scenario Comparisons

    Scenario Comparisons lets you view several scenarios side by side, making it easy to compare the alternatives properties, objective priorities, and constraints side by side. You can select the scenarios to display using the Scenarios drop-down: ...
  3. Endowment effect

    The Endowment Effect , an emotional bias, is the hypothesis that people will value something they already own more than a similar item they don’t own.  This happens even when there is no cause for attachment or even if the item was only obtained li...
  4. 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 ...
  5. Groupthink

    Groupthink is a common pitfall in group decision-making and problem-solving.  People feel reluctant to present alternatives, challenge others’ opinions, or express their own opinions.  Conditions are ripe for Groupthink when one or more of these f...
  6. Sensitivity analysis

    Most, if not all, decisions are made under uncertain conditions.  Sensitivity analysis is a technique used to determine how different values of an independent variable impact a particular dependent variable under a given set of assumptions.  It  is ...
  7. 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 ...
  8. Mixed

    The Mixed screen can display the five sensitivities, namely Dynamic Analysis , Performance Analysis , Gradient , 2D plot , and Head to Head , as well as the Alternative/Objectives Grid in one view.  By default, four sensitivities are displayed...
  9. Rating Alternatives

    Depending on how the Project Manager set up the evaluation, you will be asked to rate one alternative with respect to one objective on each screen, or all alternatives with respect to one objective on each screen, or one alternative with respect to ...
  10. Single Pairwise Verbal Comparisons

    Pairwise Verbal can be used to express your judgment about the relative importance or preference or likelihood of the two elements.  In the example below, we are asked to compare the relative importance of the two objectives  (Cost of Ownership an...