| No | Comments by reviewer | Author’s respond |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | State the specific reasons as to why the 2 experts opinions are significant in the study particularly in representing the UiTM graduate students’ opinions related to career choice. Were they ex-UiTM graduates? Do they have vast experience in dealing/counselling the graduate students of UiTM Perlis? If they do, then spell out in the respective paragraph so that the selection of the 2 experts as respondents are justified. | Some explanation and justification have been added. |
| 2 | State in the respective paragraph of the manuscript, the reference that support the claim that having 2 experts are sufficient for AHP based data analysis. | Revised. Refer Paragraph 2 in Preliminaries (FAHP) and Paragraph 1 in Conclusion. “Citation: Saaty, T. L. & Ozdemir, M. S. (2015). How Many Judges Should There Be in a Group? Annals of Data Science, Springer. https://10.1007/s40745-014-0026-4.” |
| 3 | Spell out/define (in the preliminaries section) the arithmetic operations of triangular fuzzy numbers used particularly the addition, scalar multiplication, reciprocal of triangular fuzzy number, and inverse of vector summation. Does the term ‘inverse’ used in Step 5 refer to the reciprocal fuzzy number? |
Addition, subtraction & scalar multiplication – added in preliminaries. Reciprocal of triangular fuzzy number – defined in Equation 1. Inverse of vector summation – defined in Equation 8. Yes. In this case, the term of inverse and reciprocal can be interchangeable. |
| 4 | State the reference of the variant of FAHP procedure being used in the methodology (i.e specific paper used as the main reference of the FAHP procedure, which specifically requires ‘the re-arrangement of the inverse value, if it is not in order of ’ in Step 5. | Stated. Revised. |
| 5 | The correct formula of reciprocal fuzzy number, say A=(l,m,u) is A^-1=(1/u , 1/m, 1/l) which naturally obeys the ordering of 1/u <1/m < 1/l. As such, the step of rearranging the component of the ‘inverse of vector summation’ in Step 5 is unnecessary. Please rectify Step 5. | Revised. |