A potential drawback of using the standard deviation to measure risk is that
A) positive and negative deviations from the mean cancel each other out.
B) both positive and negative deviations are included to compute deviations around the mean.
C) the probability distribution of returns is symmetrical.
D) None of the above.
B
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