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Peter Turchin, an Uncommon card
Peter Valentinovich Turchin is a Russian-American scientist who specializes in an area of study he and his colleagues developed called cliodynamics, mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 89,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Turchin is an emeritus professor at the University of Connecticut in the departments of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics.
- He is a project leader at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and a research associate at the School of Anthropology of the University of Oxford.
- He was editor-in-chief and remains a member of the editorial board at Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Peter Turchin article was read about 89,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Peter Turchin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Peter Turchin, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
