The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving by Morgan D. Jones

Author:Morgan D. Jones [Jones, Morgan D.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Crown Business
Published: 2009-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

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We then ask ourselves:

Which is better, A or B? We put a pencil mark after the one we decide is better, say, B.

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We then ask why B is better and record our reasoning separately. If we don’t ask why we favor B over A, the voting yields only our preference, not our rationale. Yet identifying the rationale is the most important part of the process.

Which is better, A or C? We put a pencil mark after, say, C, and record our reasoning.

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Which is better, A or D? We put a mark after, say, D, and record our reasoning.

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Which is better, B or C? We mark B and record our reasoning.

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Which is better, B or D? We mark B and record our reasoning.

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Which is better, C or D? We mark C and record our reasoning.

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We thus systematically compare each item with every other item. If we have been consistent in our rankings, one of the items will have three marks (votes), one will have two, one will have one, and one will have none. The item with three votes is the most favored and thus is ranked first. The item with two is second; one vote—third; no votes—fourth. If, by chance, two items end up with the same number of votes because our analysis was inconsistent, we simply rank these two items head to head to break the tie. The benefits of pair ranking aren’t noticeable with short lists of four or five items, but with longer lists they are unmistakable.

So let’s try it. Pair-rank your list of fifteen movies and enter your rankings in the next column of the Ranking Techniques Matrix and label that column “Pair Ranking.”

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