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Risk seeker

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Risk seeker
Investor who likes to take risk and is even willing to pay for it. Also called risk lover.


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She was also schooled in social anthropology at Cambridge University, although regrettably she avoids a cultural analysis of the risk managers and risk seekers who were central to the events leading up to the mess we're in now.
A risk seeker would use maximax, a risk avoider would use maximin and the risk-neutral decisionmaker would use expected values.
Risk Seekers are also more likely than Risk Avoiders to describe themselves as responsible, confident, successful, and optimistic and to report they often feel happy.
 
 
 
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