| Scale | Degree of preferences | Description | Agronomy used for this Analysis | Explanation |
| 1 | Equally | Two activities contribute to the objective. | H | Equal importance’s |
| 3 | Moderately | Experiences and judgments slightly to moderately favour one activity over another. | M | Moderately |
| 5 | Strong | Experience and judgments strongly favour one activity over another. | MH | Moderate high |
| 7 | Very strongly | An Activity is strongly or essentially favour one activity over another. | HH | High |
| 9 | Extremely | The evidence of favouring one activity over another is of the highest degree possible of an affirmation. | VH | Very High |
| 2, 4, 6, 8 | Intermediate values | Illustrates compromises between the preferences in weights 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9. | MH | Moderate high |