> This is exactly why the 2016 election was interesting. Silver called it about 33% chance Trump would win. And then he did, and people said "AHA! You were WRON

> This is exactly why the 2016 election was interesting. Silver called it about 33% chance Trump would win. And then he did, and people said "AHA! You were WRONG!" What was funny about that one was he also got a bunch of "LOL no way you lunatic, he can't possibly have that large a chance and no-one else is saying so, so you're dumb, or maybe you're secretly a pro-Trump shill". Caught it going both ways.