1974 Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 39-48
It was proposed that people could evaluate the other person's evaluation scheme in terms of the similarity (or dissimilarity) of the other person's evaluation scheme to their own schemes. The metric for the dissimilarity of evaluation schemes was proposed to be the Minkowski-p metric for the utilities evaluated under different schemes. This model provides a basis for allocating importance to utility functions, where importance is to be interpreted as the similarity of the integrated scheme to the schemes represented by the utility functions. An experiment was done to investigate whether people's intuitive judgments for the dissimilarity of evaluation schemes could be described by the Minkowski-p metric; the results generally supported the model and also suggested that the metric would be the “city-block” metric, i.e., p=1 in the Minkowski-p metric.
