Intensity of Relative Importance | Definition | Explanation |
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1 | Equal importance | Two activities contribute equally to objective 1 |
3 | Moderate importance of one over another | Experience and judgment slightly favor one activity over another |
5 | Essential or strong importance | Experience and judgment strongly favor one activity over another |
7 | Demonstrated importance | An activity is strongly favored, and its dominance is demonstrated in practice |
9 | Extreme importance | The evidence favoring one activity over another is of the highest possible order of affirmation |
2, 4, 6, 8 | Intermediate values between the two adjacent judgments | When a compromise is needed |
Reciprocals of the above nonzero numbers | Reciprocal for inverse comparison | – |