1. In English,typically, certain items are said to be weighted in certain situations. So, if you are asking the same questions of 12-year-old kids and 8-year-old kids, you would let the 8-year-old kids make more mistakes since they know less.

the Collins says this: Allowance or adjustment made in order to take account of special circumstances or compensate for a distorting factor.

‘each score is then multiplied by the appropriate weighting, giving a weighted score’

2. x-weighted decision.

In the link given here for a weighted decision matrix, you can look at the chart and see the weighting factors. There is also decision theory that enters into this. Weighting here means assigning factors of importance to a decision, whatever it might be.

3. Believability-weight decisions are thus ones that have been assigned a certain number of factors to which a number is associated. In this context, the authors is taking inputs from people and assigning a weight to them in making his decision(s).

• Is a person's input believable or not? [Weighting factor: 5]
• Is a person's input understandable or not? [Weighting factor: 3]
• Is a person's input coming from him/her or not? [Weighting factor: 2]

4. How to compute using weighting factors:

statistics and a weighting factor example with student's grades

Your author is using the term in this sense though s/he may not mean it technically. It's origin is technical. S/he is not accepting input without question. The input(s) are being weighted before they are part of her/his decision making.

1. In English,typically, certain items are said to be weighted in certain situations. So, if you are asking the same questions of 12-year-old kids and 8-year-old kids, you would let the 8-year-old kids make more mistakes since they know less.

the Collins says this: Allowance or adjustment made in order to take account of special circumstances or compensate for a distorting factor.

‘each score is then multiplied by the appropriate weighting, giving a weighted score’

2. x-weighted decision.

In the link given here for a weighted decision matrix, you can look at the chart and see the weighting factors. There is also decision theory that enters into this. Weighting here means assigning factors of importance to a decision, whatever it might be.

3. Believability-weighted decisions are thus ones that have been assigned a certain number of factors to which a number is associated. In this context, the authors is taking inputs from people and assigning a weight to them in making his decision(s).

• Is a person's input believable or not? [Weighting factor: 5]
• Is a person's input understandable or not? [Weighting factor: 3]
• Is a person's input coming from him/her or not? [Weighting factor: 2]

4. How to compute using weighting factors:

statistics and a weighting factor example with student's grades

Your author is using the term in this sense though s/he may not mean it technically. It's origin is technical. S/he is not accepting input without question. The input(s) are being weighted before they are part of her/his decision making.