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Cognitive validity in design of decision‐aiding techniques
Author(s) -
Larichev O. I.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of multi‐criteria decision analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.462
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1099-1360
pISSN - 1057-9214
DOI - 10.1002/mcda.4020010303
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , consistency (knowledge bases) , decision engineering , decision maker , cognition , decision analysis , computer science , decision rule , business decision mapping , decision aids , focus (optics) , management science , evidential reasoning approach , psychology , decision support system , artificial intelligence , mathematics , engineering , statistics , alternative medicine , physics , optics , pathology , neuroscience , medicine
Issues of the cognitive validity of prescriptive decision‐aiding methods are discussed in this paper. In view of the difficulty of external validation, the focus is on internal validation of the user interface. The following criteria are applied to a variety of decision aid designs: (1) psychologically valid measurement of features impacted by the decision; (2) psychologically valid elicitation of decision maker's preferences incorporated into a decision rule which processes those features; (3) possibility of checking for decision maker's consistency; (4) possibility of providing him/her with an explanation of the aids findings.