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Alphonse Bertillon, an Uncommon card
Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement, creating an identification system based on physical measurements.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Alphonse Bertillon quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Alphonse Bertillon card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The method was eventually supplanted by ______.
Answer
fingerprinting. The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting. From the Alphonse Bertillon article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions. Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions 68 · Laser rangefinder 62 · Alphonse Bertillon 58 · Jungle gym 49 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.
- Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals.
- Before that time, criminals could only be identified by name or photograph.
- The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alphonse Bertillon article was read about 29,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Alphonse Bertillon
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alphonse Bertillon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jebulon, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
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