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Steven Pinker, a Rare card
Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 179 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Steven Pinker quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Steven Pinker card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Pinker is the Johnstone Family professor of ______ at Harvard University.
Answer
psychology. Pinker is the Johnstone Family professor of psychology at Harvard University. From the Steven Pinker article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sociology. Sociology 91 · John Farnham 88 · Steven Pinker 85 · Steel 82 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.
- He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
- Pinker is the Johnstone Family professor of psychology at Harvard University.
- Pinker specializes in visual cognition and developmental linguistics, as well as a number of experimental topics.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Steven Pinker article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Steven Pinker
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Steven Pinker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
