Talk:Decision-matrix method

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Eric Lotze in topic Untitled

Cross reference "Decision Matrix" edit

Pugh's methods are related to what is described in the article "Decision Matrix". The two articles do not refer to each other, and this should be remedied. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.154.91 (talk) 07:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

Untitled edit

There is much more to Pugh methods—good and bad—than is contained in this very brief page.

For instance, I have found that the Pugh method's greatest strength does not lie in its ability to rank alternatives, but in its ability to highlight strong and weak aspects of various designs. The design team can then use the Pugh analysis to try to combine the strong features of each.

On the minus side, Pugh analysis does little to reduce the subjective nature of the comparison; it only puts the subjectivity down on paper. Worse, people often average scores or multiply weights against the scores, operations that are not mathematically valid given the kind of ranking that is performed and that can lead to incorrect results.

Would anyone object to seeing the page updated to contain this sort of information? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thopper (talkcontribs) 07:51, 20 March 2007.


Yeah i was thinking something along those lines. The best example in my opinion is when something along the lines of this is used for marketing and has very subjective categories, but used to appear more "objective". I think looking into that and either ways this method can be adapted to reduce the potential of that happening and/or better methods would be neat!

--Eric Lotze (talk) 04:30, 28 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

External links edit

I've removed the following external links from this article per WP:EL. If these websites are used as sources for this article, please see Wikipedia:Footnotes to see how to reference sources. --SueHay 16:43, 2 June 2007 (UTC)Reply


The swemorph links have been spammed by editors with coi on over a hundred articles. --Ronz 17:22, 6 September 2007 (UTC)Reply