Vertailuille

Vertailuille is a fictional methodological concept used in speculative science fiction to describe a compact framework for cross-domain comparison of complex data. The term is fictional and not used in established scientific practice outside of its narrative context.

It is described as combining multiple indicators—environmental stability, resource availability, social resilience, data reliability—into a single composite score. The process involves normalization to a common scale, weighted aggregation, and a final interpretive mapping to categorize performance.

Origins in fiction: The concept first appeared in the novella Valley of Echoes (fictional author) and has since been referenced in fan analyses and meta-fiction studies within the same universe. In some stories, vertailuille serves as a plot device to compare ecosystems, cities, or civilizations under stress.

Reception: Critics note its clarity in illustrating trade-offs in cross-domain evaluation, while scholars caution that its fictional status makes it unsuitable for real-world decision-making without formal validation and methodological transparency. Related to real-world approaches such as multi-criteria decision analysis and composite indicators.