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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Yes, I agree, if all strategies fail, it is dubitable that we find a 
> metric that will always find the "best" one.  But if one fails and the 
> next one does not, it is obvious what is correct.

Not at all.  Imagine the case where one of them is either ours or theirs.