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Testing: "What, Me Worry?" (continued)

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Figure 3. This is the best type of function test. It provide realistic economic "weighting" to decisions regarding which feature to keep over other features. However, this only works if the subject actually buys your type of software, is knowledgeable about the features, has a personal, meaningful budget, and has an economic limit. (Too much wealth lets the subject pick all features without penalty.)

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Figure 4. Second best. In this form of questionnaire,there is no natural limit to expenditures. You must impose a hypothetical limit. Can your subject avoid getting carried away?

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Figure 5. Third best. Sometimes dollars don't make any sense in your situation. However, this method only indicates which function is at the top of the list. You don't get any fine tuning regarding the degree of differences. Using dollar amounts, as in the first two methods, gives you a sense of the relative weighting or desirability of the functions.

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Figure 6. Fourth best and really weak. Subjects can easily select every item as "Extremely Valuable" as a way out of making tough decisions. Take the results with a grain of salt. You may not really have a winner! Better used with a small number of subjects whom you can interview for their reasons.

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