<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> The unit ball for method two has no corners or bulges (which all other values of p involve), so the strategy is not so obvious. But if Samuel Merrill is right, then in the zero information case, the optimum strategy for method two is to vote appropriately normalized sincere utilities.<br>
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--wrong.<br>
Your best strategy for any of these methods is, you identify the two<br>
"frontrunners", you vote max for one and min for the other, and then<br>
if you have any freedom left, you start considering the other N-2<br>
candidates.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>He said "in the zero information case". I think this means you can't know who the frontrunners are.</div></div>