The influence of criteria selection method on consistency of pairwise comparison

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/8/12/2200/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/8/12/2200/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math8122200" target="_blank" >10.3390/math8122200</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The influence of criteria selection method on consistency of pairwise comparison

Original language description

The more criteria a human decision involves, the more inconsistent the decision. This study experimentally examines the effect on the degree of pairwise comparison inconsistency by using the (im)possibility of selecting the criteria for the evaluation and the size of the decision-making problem. A total of 358 participants completed objective and subjective tasks. While the former was associated with one possible correct solution, there was no single correct solution for the latter. The design of the experiment enabled the acquisition of eight groups in which the degree of inconsistency was quantified using three inconsistency indices (the Consistency Index, the Consistency Ratio and the Euclidean distance) and these were analysed by the repeated measures ANOVA. The results show a significant dependence of the degree of inconsistency on the method of determining the criteria for pairwise evaluation. If participants are randomly given the criteria, then with more criteria, the overall inconsistency of the comparison decreases. If the participants can themselves choose the criteria for the comparison, then with more criteria, the overall inconsistency of the comparison increases. This statistical dependence exists only for males. For females, the dependence is the opposite, but it is not statistically significant. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-01246S" target="_blank" >GA18-01246S: Non-standard optimization and decision-making methods in management processes</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mathematics

ISSN

2227-7390

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

"Article Number: 2200"

UT code for WoS article

000602084300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85097532149