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Risk and uncertainty

2.3 Advantages and disadvantages of using expected values

 Takes risk into account.

 Easier decisions.

 Simple.

 Probabilities are subjective.

 Little meaning for a one-off project.

 Ignores attitudes to risk.

 The answer may not exist.

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