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Index, a Common card
In statistics and research design, an index is a composite statistic – a measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points, or in other words, a compound measure that aggregates multiple indicators.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 50
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 80
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,900
Power 80 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Index quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Index card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Indices – also known as indexes and composite indicators – summarize and rank specific ______.
Answer
observations. Indices – also known as indexes and composite indicators – summarize and rank specific observations. From the Index article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2010 Camping World Grand Prix at The Glen. 2010 Camping World Grand Prix at The Glen 61 · Hospitality management studies 54 · Index 50 · Heo Yool 46 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.
- Indices – also known as indexes and composite indicators – summarize and rank specific observations.
- Much data in the field of social sciences and sustainability are represented in various indices such as Gender Gap Index, Human Development Index or the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- The ‘Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress’, written by Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi in 2009 suggests that these measures have experienced a dramatic growth in recent years due to three concurring factors: improvements in the level of literacy increased complexity of modern societies and economies, and widespread…
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Index article was read about 6,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 50 and blocks with 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Index
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Index in the power ranking, all domains together.
- An Englishman in MoscowCommon · Arts · ATK 52 DEF 28
- Service dropCommon · Science · ATK 52 DEF 28
- Vicente Riva PalacioCommon · Arts · ATK 51 DEF 29
- Marshall MajorCommon · Science · ATK 49 DEF 31
- 2010 Camping World Grand Prix at The GlenCommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 19
- Heo YoolCommon · Arts · ATK 46 DEF 34
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Index (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Original image by User:donarreiskoffer , new SVG version made with Gnumeric (from original, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
