A comparative study on precision of direct evaluations, the Pairwise Comparisons Method and the Best-Worst Method

The aim of this paper is to design, carry out and analyze an experiment with over 100 respondents to measure the precision of the respondents when they compare (by evaluation) the areas of nine geometric figures and five distances between cities by using direct evaluations, Pairwise Comparisons Method and Best-Worst Method. The outcomes of the experiment indicate that the direct evaluations are the most imprecise and that there is not statistically significant difference between Best-Worst Method and Pairwise Comparisons Method.