Variance is frequently used measure of dispersion for the probability distribution of a random variable. Furthermore, variance is often seen as a measure of risk. What do you think this example is trying to show you?

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Consider two lotteries. Lottery A is such that an individual receives a prize of 1 unit of a consumption good with 80% probability and 100 units of the consumption good with 20% probability. Lottery B presents the winner with a prize of 10 units of a consumption good with 99% probability and a prize of 1090 units of the consumption good with 1% probability.

 

  1. Variance is frequently used measure of dispersion for the probability distribution of a random variable. Furthermore, variance is often seen as a measure of risk. What do you think this example is trying to show you?

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