Magnes: A Ratio-Scaling Tool for Decision Making

Robert L. Kaplan
1994 unpublished
A RATIO-SCALING TOOL FOR DECISION-MAKING I. ABSTRACT Because the computer is such a powerful tool, analysts are bombarded, continuously, with the new sophisticated, often exotic, tools (algorithms, models, etc.) ostensibly designed to improve the complex problems that characterize our modern society. Amost all incorporate Some form of quantification as input. Careful examination of the tools, however, reveals that often the type of quantification used receives only cursory attention, if at all.
more » ... The tool developers seem to take the attitude that 'numbers are numbers (input data, that is) and that importance of data quality is secondary to the algorithm/model development.
doi:10.13033/isahp.y1994.029 fatcat:opxcspazkjfwvbsm3wh3d6poym