On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 04:59:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Now, the 6 BAD voters (teehee)
I appreciate your ability to find humor. > But the point is, that voting as a bloc might increase your chance of getting > your favourite option up (from 0 to 0.5 in this example above), but they > also increase the odds of the default option getting up (again, from 0 to > 0.5). That's a gamble, not a strategy. Tell that to a gambler. Seriously, in the end all that a rational person should care about is expectation value. On the other hand, it is true that if the analysis is complicated and contains a lot of uncertainty (it probably will), and a strategic vote entails risk (it will), and the margins are not very high, most people will probably revent to voting their heart. Maybe that's assurance enough. Andrew
