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Why did certainty factors give way to probability?

  • A.Their combination rules had no principled justification
  • B.They were too slow to compute in a large knowledge base
  • C.They could not represent complete certainty in a conclusion
  • D.Probability required fewer numbers to be supplied by experts

Answer: A

The combination formulas implicitly assumed independences that the rule base did not satisfy, so conclusions could be badly wrong in ways nobody could predict or diagnose. Probability makes those assumptions explicit and derives its rules from axioms about consistent belief. Speed, expressiveness and elicitation burden are not the reason. Replacing a scheme that works by luck with one that works by construction is worth doing even when the second demands more of the modeller.

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