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Alan Sokal, an Uncommon card
Alan David Sokal is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 33
- Power
- 93
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 33,000
Power 93 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Alan Sokal quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alan Sokal card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He works with statistical mechanics and ______.
Answer
combinatorics. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics. From the Alan Sokal article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Sokal is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in ____ when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University Press's Social Text.
Answer
1990s. Sokal is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University Press's Social Text. From the Alan Sokal article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
The Alchemist. The Alchemist 65 · Alan Sokal 60 · Healing 57 · Cadaverine 54 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
- Sokal is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University Press's Social Text.
- He also co-authored a paper criticizing the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alan Sokal article was read about 33,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 33: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alan Sokal (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Yorgos Kourtakis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
