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Uncommon card · History
Deirdre McCloskey, an Uncommon card
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is an American economist and academic.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 37,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Deirdre McCloskey quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Deirdre McCloskey card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
McCloskey holds twelve honorary ______.
Answer
doctorates. McCloskey holds twelve honorary doctorates. From the Deirdre McCloskey article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Deirdre McCloskey. Deirdre McCloskey 66 · Arthur Guinness, Baron Ardilaun 63 · Damien Mander 60 · Heinkel He 51 56 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.
- Since 2023 she has been a distinguished scholar and holder of the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. From 2000 to 2015, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was a distinguished professor of economics and history and a professor of English and communication.
- During those years, she taught economic history at the University of Gothenburg, economics at the University of the Free State, and philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- McCloskey holds twelve honorary doctorates.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Deirdre McCloskey article was read about 37,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Deirdre McCloskey
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Deirdre McCloskey (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Policy Exchange, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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