Which performance appraisal technique uses a $^$ prime prime $+^$ prime prime to denote "better than" and a $"-"$ to denote "worse than" and then adds up the number of times that each employee was rated as "better than"?

$1)$ Alternation ranking method

$2)$ Critical incident method

$3)$ Paired comparison method

$4)$ Forced distribution method

$5)$ Graphic rating scale method