Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes September 2014 - Less Wrong
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Not quite, as most people are risk-averse and care about the width about the distribution of the expected returns, not only about its mean.
If you measure "returns" in utility (rather than dollars, root mean squared error, lives, whatever) then the definition of utility (and in particular the typical pattern of decreasing marginal utility) takes care of risk aversion. But since nobody measures returns in utility your advice is good.