Puppet Mastery Notes

Stephen Downes-Martin, PhD

stephen.downesmartin@gmail.com

+1 401-935-4808

Under continuous construction. I will be adding, editing, deleting and reordering items below for a while.

Motivation

1. Popular Rank Ordered COA Comparison Matrix Approach is Nonsense

2. US Military Doctrine Approach to Course of Action Comparison

... maybe more to follow

Background

3. What, Exactly, Do You Mean By Rank Ordering?

4. Why You Cannot Do Arithmetic on Rank Orders

5. There is No Such Thing as a “Non-weighted" Comparison Matrix

6. Dominated and Dominating Alternatives

... maybe more to follow

Some Popular Approaches ... and what's wrong with them ... and how to manipulate them

7. Plus / Minus / Neutral Method (Pugh Matrices)

... definitely more to follow

Conclusions

8. How You Should Compare Qualitative Alternatives

 ... definitely more to follow

Some Advanced Knowledge

... definitely more to follow