Turning one lonely observation into the sample mean
You have i.i.d. readings from a Normal distribution with unknown mean and known variance . A lazy analyst estimates using only the first reading, . It is unbiased but wastes almost all the data.
Use the Rao-Blackwell construction to improve by conditioning on the sufficient statistic , and show exactly how much the variance drops.
Your answer
This one is open-ended. Work it through, then check your reasoning against the full solution.