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Dorothy Vaughan, a Rare card
Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan was an American mathematician, human computer, computer programmer and schoolteacher who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Dorothy Vaughan quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dorothy Vaughan card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She later was promoted officially to the position of ______.
Answer
supervisor. She later was promoted officially to the position of supervisor. From the Dorothy Vaughan article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center.
Answer
1940s. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center. From the Dorothy Vaughan article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of most-liked Instagram posts. List of most-liked Instagram posts 72 · Hypergamy 69 · Copper peptide GHK-Cu 66 · Dorothy Vaughan 63 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.
- In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African-American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff at the center.
- She later was promoted officially to the position of supervisor.
- During her 28-year career, Vaughan prepared for the introduction of computers in the early 1960s by teaching herself and her staff the Fortran programming language.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dorothy Vaughan article was read about 200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Dorothy Vaughan
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dorothy Vaughan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA on The Commons, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
