Literal Judgments
Literal judgments are the default method for making pairwise judgments. The judgments are made by selecting on the side of the favorable criterion or alternative a numeric value that corresponds to the literal judgments.
1 |
Criteria is equal in importance |
2-3 |
Criterion is weakly more important than the other criterion. |
4-5 |
Criterion is strongly more important than the other criterion. |
6-7 |
Criterion is very strongly more important than the other criterion. |
8-9 |
Criterion is absolutely more important than the other criterion. |
When all of the judgments have been made for a level the consistency index is calculated to indicate how consistent the judgments are (i.e., if A>B and B>C than C should be greater than B). Using the consistency hint or real time consistency feature may help you determine where the inconsistencies are.
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