TY - JOUR AU - Saaty, Thomas L. PY - 2009/04/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - An Essay on How Judgment and Measurement are Different in Science and in Decision Making JF - International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process JA - IJAHP VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Essays, Reviews & Comments DO - 10.13033/ijahp.v1i1.14 UR - https://www.ijahp.org/index.php/IJAHP/article/view/14 SP - AB - <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In decision making the priority scales are derived objectively after subjective judgments are made, and they reflect the importance of the influences we considered. The process is the opposite of what is done in the physical sciences where the subjectivity of interpreting the final number comes at the end.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">http://dx.doi.org/10.13033/ijahp.v1i1.14<br /></span></span></p> ER -