A small on-line decision matrix application to assist in decision making and precise communication of relevant factors inside communities. Written in OCaml using the TEA architecture.
I believe people do better when they have a better working mental model.
Technology comparison articles frustrate me as frequently rife with
- us vs. them thinking / emotive / tribal think (along with consequent ad hominem attacks)
- strawman arguments
- a lack of precision about the factors under consideration
- conflation of how an alternative might score for some decision factor with the total relevance of the factor. For example, there is a lot of "yeah choice X may not be great at thing Y but Y is completely stupid and no one needs it".
As humans we tend towards all of the above. That's OK. We also build tools to overcome our limits. This is just a small toy project but maybe some group can use it to communicate better
- separating and communicating situational elements (factor weights) from factor scoring.
- quantifying relative scoring.