As we become adult we just have to make more and more decisions for ourselves and it can be difficult.
Write down your top five priorities for the new appliance, price, size, power consumption, appearance etc etc.
List them in order by comparing
A vs B
A vs C
A vs D
A vs E
B vs C
B vs D etc
right down to the last D vs E
Then eliminate the least important from each pair.
Then Add up the number of As Bs Cs etc that remain.
You will then know which is your top priority.
Assign the top priority a weighting of 10 and the second priority a lesser number or even 10 if you wish.
Score each machine against the priority weighting for each attribute out of 10 - multiply each category Score x Weighting and add the products.
Repeat for the second appliance.
Make a decision!
Peccavi
November 2009