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W. Edwards Deming, an Uncommon card
William Edwards Deming was an American business theorist, composer, economist, industrial engineer, management consultant, statistician, and writer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 134
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 134 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
W. Edwards Deming quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the W. Edwards Deming card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is best known for his ______ of management.
Answer
theories. He is best known for his theories of management. From the W. Edwards Deming article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
W. Edwards Deming. W. Edwards Deming 77 · Charles V of France 74 · Lou Andreas-Salomé 71 · Andrew Irvine 68 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.
- Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the United States Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- He is also known as the father of the quality movement, known as "Lean manufacturing" today, and was hugely influential in post-WWII Japan, credited with revolutionizing Japan's industry and making it one of the most dominant economies in the world.
- He is best known for his theories of management.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The W. Edwards Deming article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get W. Edwards Deming
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, W. Edwards Deming (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : FDA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
