When reviewing your investment criteria scores, you’ll see a series of bars that represent how well each opportunity aligns with your preferences. Here’s how to interpret them.
1. Match Strength (Colored Bars)
The number of colored bars shows how well a given opportunity matches your criteria.
- More bars filled in indicates a stronger match
- Fewer bars filled in indicates a weaker match
For example, a 9/10 score means the opportunity aligns very closely with your preferred criteria (90%).
2. Criteria Importance (Total Bars)
The total number of bars (colored or not) shows how important that specific metric is in Hum’s matching schema. The number of possible bars ranges from 1-10.
- A 10-bar metric means it’s highly important to the matching schema..
- A 1-bar metric means it’s far less significant to the matching schema.
3. How to Read It All Together
Each metric has two dimensions:
- Match level: how well the opportunity fits that specific criterion (how many bars are colored).
- Importance level: how critical that metric is to Hum’s matching schema,and therefore, how much it contributes to the overall score (how many total bars appear).
For example:
- A 9/10 match means the opportunity performs excellently on a very important criterion. It scores a 90% match against one of the highest weighted criteria in Hum’s matching schema.
- A 0/3 match means the opportunity doesn’t align against a less important criteria, therefore, it won’t impact the weighted score significantly but it will still detract from the overall weighted score.
- A 0/10 match means that the opportunity does not align at all on a very important criteria, which should prompt you to investigate this opportunity more before making a decision.
4. What This Means for You
This visualization helps you quickly understand:
- Where an opportunity aligns most strongly with what you value.
- Which mismatches you can safely overlook because they’re not high-priority.