Question

The _____ the uncertainty, the ______ is the information content.

(a) Lesser, greater

(b) Greater, lesser

(c) Lesser, lesser

(d) Greater, greater

I had been asked this question in examination.

This interesting question is from Cipher Systems and Secrecy of Cipher Systems topic in portion Spread Spectrum Techniques of Digital Communications

Answer 1

Right option is (d) Greater, greater

The best I can explain: The more uncertainty there is in predicting the occurrence of a message, the greater the information content.