Which is a lot. Of course, Diaconis says, as a scientist he cannot affirm that the one lucky box is Bill Clinton. It is even theoretically possible that Clinton is not lucky but unlucky. Unlucky, for example, to have had this sexual affair explode so publicly. We don't know the denominator.
Some people just seem to be born lucky.
Maybe they are. Maybe there are genes for luck, good and bad. It's not that far-fetched. A few years ago, Peter McGuffin, a psychiatrist and geneticist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, was working on a study of depression when he stumbled on something interesting. He checked identical twins who lived apart.