Why should we measure loss severity? - Answers risk classification
determination of transfer (insurance) amount
Which of the following is a common pre-loss objective? - Answers economy
Insurance is a mechanism for managing - Answers pure risk
Risk at the individual level can best be defined as - Answers Uncertainty regarding loss
Hazards may be categorized by which of the following groups? - Answers Tangible (Physical)
and intangible
Donna has a home that is insured to its maximum value. She often leaves the door unlocked in
case she forgets her keys. She knows that her insurance policy will pay for any losses if her
home is robbed. Which of the following best applies to Donna? - Answers moral/morale hazard
The ranking of risks by severity is important because:
I. An idea of severity can help classify risks faced by an organization
II. Severity can help determine the amount of insurance needed
III. Severity can establish how often a risk faced by a company will occur - Answers I and II
Which of the following is the last step in the risk management process (but often done first)? -
Answers Review and Evaluate
When considering the risk involved in a specific activity, - Answers Danger and Risk are not
always correlated
The scientific approach to dealing with risk is called - Answers Risk Management
Risk prevention methods are best applied to? - Answers high frequency losses
Karen won't allow any of the neighborhood children into her yard because she has a large
swimming pool and doesn't want anyone to fall in, resulting in her being responsible for the
harm of a child. What type of risk is Karen trying to avoid? - Answers liability
Which of the following is not a category of risk retention? - Answers primary versus secondary
How does the mathematical measure of Standard Deviation help risk mangers? - Answers It
measures the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
Static risks - Answers Do not change over time
Which of the following is NOT a method of categorizing risk? - Answers certain versus uncertain
, Imagine a world where health insurance doesn't exist. On the upside, you don't have to pay any
health insurance premiums! On the downside, if you become sick you're responsible for the full
amount of your healthcare. What if you had children? The risk of unknown payments for
healthcare would require all of us to save a much larger amount of money to set aside just in
case we needed it. This burden would be in which of the following categories? - Answers need
for larger emergency funds
Loss frequency describes which of the following? - Answers number of losses
According to "Scientific View of Risk" most risks are relative. What does this mean? - Answers
Any given risk should be weighed with other risks or lost benefits that can result from attempts
to reduce the given risk.
According to "Innovation Risk: How to Make Smarter Decisions", which one of the following was
NOT one of the simultaneous factors of the recent financial crisis? - Answers High interest rates
"Innovation Risk: How to Make Smarter Decisions" says that models can only be meaningfully
evaluated as a triplet. What does this mean? - Answers Equal consideration must be given to the
model, application, and user.
According to "Innovation Risk: How to Make Smarter Decisions", the infrastructure should be
changed based on every new innovation. - Answers False - There are frequent innovation to
infrastructure so the changes to infrastructure would be constant.
According to "Innovation Risk: How to Make Smarter Decisions", which of the following is NOT
one of the five rules of thumb to minimizing risk? - Answers Determine which risks are being
faced
As an application of the "number of days" lost measure of risk discussed in "Scientific View of
Risk" consider the following 2015 statistic. Today's life expectancy is well into the 80s. What
percentage of life-long smokers die before the age of 70? - Answers 50%
Greg and Emily were tasked with developing a model of how an individual may purchase lottery
tickets. Greg's model for determining ticket purchases incorrectly assumes all people are
equally likely to play the lottery. Emily's model correctly assumed that lottery ticket purchases
vary with income and education levels and found very different results than Greg's model. Which
of the following describes Greg's model? - Answers Incorrect
From the reading "Innovation Risk", the characteristics of a sound mathematical model include
all of the following EXCEPT: - Answers fewer than three variables
In the lecture, we applied some of the concepts of the article "Innovation Risk" to self-drive cars.
Which of the following was NOT one of the rewards discussed with self-drive cars? - Answers
increased driver error