Advising: 1. level: COCO-STD (online, additive)

The following conversation is to determine if all necessary preconditions are met in order to use the COCO-online standard additive procedure. If not, instructions will be given to help decide which procedure to choose. All your answers will be visualized on all levels, and on each level, all the possible conclusions that can be drew from the conversation too, so you will get some sort of report at the end of the advisory process. The process can be aborted any time, and a new advisory process can be started, or you can run the processes in parallel. The advisory process covers a partial combinatorial space, so, basically it checks a Yes-branch, and in case of negative or insecure answers, it will help to return to the Yes-branch with explanations, or help to choose a new from the starting questions.
(Note: the possible ranking principles - direct proportion (if the absolute value of X gets bigger, then the absolute value of Y gets bigger too = 'the more the more') or inverse proportion (if the absolute value of X gets bigger, then the absolute value of Y gets smaller = 'the more the less').

Please, answer the following question:

1. question: Is it true: each monotone ranking direction could be given simply (basing on legitimate literature or statement)?