Some Governments Around the World Have Attempted to Curtail the Use

question 124

Multiple Choice

Some governments around the world have attempted to curtail the use of social media because they object to the __________.

• A)exclusion of women from using social media
• B)underrepresentation of American values in social media
• C)anticonsumerist bias of American-based factions in social media
• D)spread of antigovernment ideas and the mobilization of social movements made possible by social media

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Definitions:

Fat Tails

Refers to the occurrences of extreme movements in stock prices or higher than normal risks in investments, which lead to heavy tails in a probability distribution.

Kurtosis

Measure of the fatness of the tails of a probability distribution. Indicates probability of observing extreme high or low values.

Skewness

A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean.

Tail Risk

Risk of extreme events in the far tail of the probability distribution.