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Table 3 Saaty’s scale for pairwise comparisons in AHP. Source: [50]

From: Application of the analytic hierarchy process in the selection of traditional food criteria in Vojvodina (Serbia)

Intensity of importance on an absolute scale

Definition

1

Equal importance

3

Moderate importance of one over another

5

Essential or strong importance

7

Very strong importance

9

Extreme importance

2, 4, 6, 8

Intermediate values between the two adjacent judgments