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Decision Making
Is Problem Solving

The stages of decision making and problem solving are the same.

Here is a rating scale for problem solvers, decision makers and others. You can make as many copies as you want. Larger size one is available from us.

The Edmund Reliability Scale

Our society is becoming increasingly more complex, team-oriented and adversarial each day. A rating scale such as the one shown below may be of some use.

Here is my version of a scale that can be used by a person evaluating his own opinion or conclusion. The scale could also be used by a team leader, scientist, businessman, attorney, judge, juror, etc. to evaluate someone's opinion, testimony, or conclusion hopefully reached by following the stages of the scientific method.

By multiplying the raters' own degree of experience in a given subject with the score he/she assesses to an individual's opinion, testimony, conclusion, etc., we can arrive at a total score helpful in determining reliability.

You can develop variations of the suggested way to use this scale (shown in reduced size here) or a similar one. Example: The numerical units could be interpreted to represent money, time, sales, profit or plans and more.

The objective of the scale is to bring method and criteria, hence obtaining reliable ratings.

RATING SCALE FOR:
Knowledge reliability Decisions Theories Plans
Problem solutions Testimonies Criteria Ideas, etc.
Rater's name and title Rater's level of experience (circle)
LOW   0   1   2   3   4   5   HIGH
WORST                         For Rating Subject:                         BEST

Circle number you believe applicable:
-10   -9   -8   -7   -6   -5   -4   -3   -2   -1   0   +1   +2   +3   +4   +5   +6   +7   +8   +9   +10

If you rated a 0 please circle reason:
Not Sure       Don't Know       Neutral       No Effect

Subject Date Score
__________ x ________ = _________
Rater's level  x
of experience
subject's
rating
= overall score

Establish Your Own Criteria to Overall Score - for example:

Plus Scores: 1 to 16 = C (Average) 17 to 32 = B (Above Average) 33 to 50 = A (Excellent)

0 Scores: Not sure, Don't Know, Neutral, No Effect

Minus Scores: Indicate degree of failure, unreliability, inaccuracy, disaster, etc.


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