Rank ordering engineering designs: pairwise comparison charts and Borda counts

• Published in: Research in engineering design Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 236 - 242
• Main Authors: Dym, Clive L., Wood, William H., Scott, Michael J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer Nature B.V 01.11.2002
• Subjects: Charts; Hierarchies; Voting

Designers routinely rank alternatives in a variety of settings using a staple of comparison, the pairwise comparison. In recent years questions have been raised about the use of such comparisons as a means of calculating and aggregating meaningful preference or choice data. Results on voting have be...