> but he is far from a brilliant businessman. I'm not claiming he is a brilliant businessman. I'm only disputing the assertion that he "lacks intelligence", w

> but he is far from a brilliant businessman. I'm not claiming he is a brilliant businessman. I'm only disputing the assertion that he "lacks intelligence", which is what started this side-thread. > How do you lose a billion dollars? Many different ways. For example, Hillary spent over a billion dollars on her losing campaign, but I don't assume that Hillary lacks intelligence because of this. > Could his relative success be explained by survivorship bias? It could well be, and again I'm not ascribing any sort of "special intelligence" to Trump, just that I don't agree that he "lacks intelligence".