Exclusion criterion

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An exclusion criterion is usually a criterion with which a possible course of action or another option is excluded in the context of a decision-making process . In this context, the colloquial terms killer criterion , knockout criterion or homicide criterion are also used.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria can also be used to define whether certain people or objects should be included in a group or excluded from it. This language usage is also used in the sciences.

Exclusion of options

Examples:

  • On the labor market , employers make a quick pre-selection when viewing numerous written applications based on various unfavorable characteristics. According to a survey by the Austrian job portal karriere.at in 2012, 66 percent of the 264 executives, entrepreneurs and personnel decision-makers surveyed rated “typos, sloppiness, confusion” in the application text as an exclusion criterion.
  • In project management , “killer criteria” can be used to decide whether a project has to be canceled (that is, the possibility of “continuing the project” is excluded). These include criteria such as “too few staff”, “funding is not secured” or “timeframe exceeded”. There are killer criteria, the occurrence of which leads to the project being terminated in any case (“sole killer criterion”), and those whose occurrence only leads to the project being terminated in conjunction with one or more other conditions (“combined killer criterion”).
  • If, when choosing a partner, people definitely do not want their partner to have a certain characteristic, this characteristic is an exclusion criterion. Examples could be criteria such as “Exceeding a certain age limit”, “The person is still bound” or “Dog owner”. Exclusion criteria play a particularly important role in online dating . The characteristic “smoker” is often an exclusion criterion. However, in a current survey (2019) by Parship , more than half of more than 250,000 respondents said that this characteristic was not a “homicide criterion” for them.

Definition of belonging to a group

Examples:

Such cases are also about decisions. However, the word components inclusion and exclusion here do not primarily refer to options for action, but above all to the question of belonging or not belonging to a certain group or set . Both perspectives are partly possible, for example in the case of the partner search ( see above ): Exclusion criteria are used to define who should belong to the group of possible partners; the application of the exclusion criteria then leads to the desired reduction in options.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Killer criteria in the exploratory tunnel nzz.ch, July 10, 2002. The killer criteria (heading) are consistently referred to as exclusion criteria in the following text .
  2. ^ A b Gerhard Versteegen: Cross-process project management: Basics of successful projects , Springer-Verlag, 2004, p. 44.
  3. ↑ The Swiss have these knockout criteria when looking for accommodation news.immowelt.ch, November 22, 2018. The knockout criteria (heading) are also referred to as exclusion criteria in the following text .
  4. ↑ a b Example: forum discussion on elitepartner.at. Here the participants discuss which "knockout criteria" they have.
  5. ↑ Management: Change - and no more excuses capital.de, December 27, 2016. This article deals with the size of companies as a manslaughter criterion and exclusion criterion for the question of whether certain changes are possible in large companies.
  6. ↑ a b Smoking (not) a no-go: the majority of singles accept the vice infranken.de, May 27, 2019.
  7. ↑ HR managers reveal: These are the absolute no-gos in applications karriere.at, August 21, 2012.
  8. ↑ Inclusion and exclusion criteria for clinical studies mondosano.de, November 11, 2016.
  9. ↑ Manfred Hennecke, Stefan Munzinger: The new systematic structure of the genus Ophrys: sub-genus Ophrys Ber. Workforce Home. Orchid. 2014; 31 (1): 62–73, here p. 64. Quotation: "Due to these exclusion criteria, taxa that were previously mistakenly listed as subspecies must be classified as varieties [...]"