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by xapata 3435 days ago
I'm not sure which ones you read. Nate Silver's analysis seemed pretty sound. His team pointed out that, just as with the housing crisis, if the models were wrong in one state, they were probably wrong in all states in the same way, giving Trump a decent chance at winning.

Note that Taleb criticized the speed that Nate changed estimates, not the estimates themselves.