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Hypergamy, a Rare card
In social science, hypergamy originally referred to marrying or dating someone of higher socioeconomic class, today more commonly however, it refers to partnering with someone of higher general/composite mate value.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Hypergamy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hypergamy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term hypergyny can also be used to describe the ______ of women marrying up.
Answer
practice. The term hypergyny can also be used to describe the practice of women marrying up. From the Hypergamy 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 · CCDC144A 55 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Hypergamy. Hypergamy 280,000 · CCDC144A 300 · Runcinated 8-simplexes 230 · Priamur electoral district 33 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- The antonym hypogamy refers to the inverse, a preference for dating or marrying someone of lower mate value or socioeconomic class.
- The term hypergyny can also be used to describe the practice of women marrying up.
- Concepts such as hypergamy, hypogamy, and hypergyny could be considered special cases of mésalliance.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hypergamy article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Hypergamy
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hypergamy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
