Given a probability space $\left(\Omega\text{, }\mathcal{F}\text{, }\mathbb{P}\right)$ and two random variables defined on it, does it hold true that
$$
\mathbb{E}\left(X\right)<\mathbb{E}\left(Y\right)\hspace{0.5cm}\Rightarrow\hspace{0.5cm}\mathbb{E}\left(X|\mathcal{F}\right)<\mathbb{E}\left(Y|\mathcal{F}\right)
$$
?
If not, could you please give me some good counterexample?
2026-04-03 02:31:41.1775183501
Does expectation inequality imply conditional expectation inequality?
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Let it be that $X$ only takes values in $\{0,1\}$ with $P(X=1)=p\in(0,0.5)$.
Let $Y=1-X$.
Then: $$\mathbb EX=p<1-p=\mathbb EY$$
If $\mathcal F=\sigma(X)$ then: $$\mathbb E(X\mid\mathcal F)=X\text{ and }\mathbb E(Y\mid\mathcal F)=Y$$
But we do not have $X(\omega)<Y(\omega)$ for every $\omega\in\Omega$ because $P(X=1,Y=0)=p>0$.
So we cannot state that $\mathbb E(X\mid\mathcal F)<\mathbb E(Y\mid\mathcal F)$.