| Linguistic variables | Triangular fuzzy numbers |
| Absolutely important (AB) | (0.90, 1.00, 1.00) |
| Very Strongly important (VS) | (0.80, 0.90, 1.00) |
| Essentially important (ES) | (0.50, 0.70, 0.90) |
| Weakly important (WK) | (0.50, 0.60, 0.70) |
| Equally important (EI) | (0.40, 0.50, 0.60) |
| Weakly not important (WN) | (0.30, 0.40, 0.50) |
| Essentially not important (EN) | (0.10, 0.30, 0.50) |
| Very strongly not important (VN) | (0.00, 0.10, 0.20) |
| Absolutely not important (AN) | (0.00, 0.00, 0.10) |