How does Numerical Taxonomy assign importance to different characteristics?

How does Numerical Taxonomy assign importance to different characteristics?
  1. By giving equal importance to all characteristics
  2. By giving more importance to certain characteristics
  3. By giving less importance to certain characteristics
  4. By giving no importance to certain characteristics

Solution

Numerical Taxonomy is a method of classification that assigns numerical codes to different characteristics, and then processes the data using computers. In this way, each characteristic is given equal importance, and hundreds of characteristics can be considered at the same time.

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