Usage of the FACTORFINDER-Software is recommended, if factors directly act on the success criterion. This means, inhibiting factors can not or only partially be compensated by opposing promoting factors. The application scenario of the FACTORFINDER-Software includes cases where each factor can inhibit success of an alternative and there is no way to compensate for goal-adverse values in critical factors.
If we would suppose that some factors could compensate for other factors, that would imply that factor variations lead to monotonic output variations. Otherwise, if there were threshold values, we could not counterbalance the effect of variations of antagonistic factors. The option of compensation implies that no factor is critically important because even intolerable goal-adverse values could be compensated. If we assume compensation of effects between factors the use of the FACTORFINDER-Procedure is inadequate.
On the other hand, if we assume that at least some of the factors can be critically important, the FACTORFINDER-Software supports analysis.