Options are harder to judge one at a time. A feature like the storage on a laptop means little alone and a lot next to another laptop. Seen together, the real trade-offs show up. A structured comparison starts by deciding what matters. Every option is then measured against the same list, on the same scale. That way a price and a deadline can be compared fairly.
A spreadsheet can do this for a handful of options. It gets harder when the list is long or the facts behind each score need checking. Decidient researches the real options and applies the rules that govern the decision. Decidient then scores each option against your answers, and each fact behind a score links back to its source.
The scores show why the options differ. The decision stays with you.
The science. Some features are hard to judge alone, such as the storage on a laptop. Such features count for more once there is something to compare them with (Hsee, 1996). Giving each option a score on every criterion, then adding up the weighted scores, is a standard approach called multi-attribute value theory (Keeney and Raiffa, 1976). We tend to judge how likely something is by how easily examples come to mind (Tversky and Kahneman, 1974). The same pull can favor the option we saw last, because that option is easy to recall.
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