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Is sensitivity weighted by which stage it is for multi-stage logic chains? I.E. for the example graphic, we could argue that the output of the OR into the AND i

Is sensitivity weighted by which stage it is for multi-stage logic chains? I.E. for the example graphic, we could argue that the output of the OR into the AND is an input, or in the bank loan example it might ask "Are you married?" and if you answer yes it asks how much your partner makes, so it's a second-stage input to the final boolean calculation - is that taken into consideration when calculating sensitivity?

aesthesia 7y ago
No. To compute sensitivity we consider the entire boolean function abstractly, without any reference to a particular implementation. There are other equivalent implementations of the same function with different arrangements (and numbers) of gates, so this wouldn't necessarily make sense to include. There are measures of complexity that do (at least sort of) take into account the way that you implement a function with gates, and they typically look at the circuit with the fewest gates or the shortest paths that computes the function.