8. Expert Choice software familiarity. Have a group meeting and discuss how you chose a place to live when you relocated to start your college program (or relocated to where you are now). What factors were important for each individual then, and how long ago was it? Have the criteria changed? As a group, identify the five to seven most important criteria used in making the decision.

Using the current group members’ living arrangements as choices, develop an Expert Choice model that describes this decision-making problem. Do not put your judgments in yet. You should each solve the Expert Choice model independently. Be careful to keep the inconsistency ratio less than 0.1. How many of the group members selected their current home using the software? For those who did, was it a close decision, or was there a clear winner?

If some group members did not choose their current homes, what criteria made the result different? (In this decision-making exercise, you should not consider spouses or parents, even those who cook really well, as part of the home.) Did the availability of better choices that meet their needs become known? How consistent were your judgments? Do you think you would really prefer to live in the winning location? Why or why not?

Finally, average the results for all group members (by adding the synthesized weights for each choice and dividing by the number of group members). This is one way Expert Choice works. Is there a clear winner? Whose home is it, and why did it win? Were there any close second choices? Turn in your results in a summary report

(up to two typed pages), with copies of the individual Expert Choice runs.