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be a happy occasion, or an indicator that the thresholds for individual alternatives should be made
a bit less forgiving.
is filtering method is fairly robust, and mainly assumes that the assessments of each alter-
native are made separately, without resort to explicit pair-wise comparisons. is is not easy to
accomplish in practice.
When pair-wise comparisons of the alternatives are allowed, explicitly or implicitly, the result
of such a filtering method is vulnerable to changes in order. e agreement upon an ordering of
importance of the decision criteria is crucial to making this method defensible.
D.4.3 Filtering When Relative Importance Is Not Available
When no agreement on ...