Saturday, August 4, 2018

Utility

Utility: The satisfaction people derive from consumption activity is known as utility.

Or, satisfaction derive from hobbies, is known as utility.

There are two types of utility:
a. Cardinal utility
b. Ordinal utility

A. Cardinal utility:  cardinal utility can be quantified and it assigns no.
Cardinal utility is associated with RATINGS.

Ex: imagine you watched a movie and someone asked you how much you enjoyed that particular movie? You cannot answer it untill a particular scale is given to you. So in that case you can rate the movie but u can not say how much you enjoyed like 10 or 100 .

B. Ordinal utility: Ordinal utility is associated with RANKING.
Ordinal utility offers independent data and it doesn't depend on cardinal utility.

Ex: Top ten B-schools
       Top ten sports
        Top ten songs etc.

So, here we can see the major difference between cardinal utility and ordinal utility.

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