ØAfter the tourist exercise workshop participants pointed out that the criteria farmers use for comparing technologies are not usually of equal importance.  We used the workshop evaluation data to demonstrate how preference data can be weighted for analysis.  We defined an index of satisfaction called the Dynamic Interactive JIRCAS Approval Index (DIJAI) defined as follows:
ØDIJAI = å ([RSi] · [SSi])
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§Where i = an expectation
§RSi = Ranking Score for expectation i
§SSi = Satisfaction Score for expectation
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Results of the evaluation
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i = 1