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Uncommon card · History
Walter A. Shewhart, an Uncommon card
Walter Andrew Shewhart was an American physicist, engineer and statistician.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 91
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 91 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Walter A. Shewhart quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Walter A. Shewhart card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is sometimes also known as the grandfather of ______ quality control, inventor of the Shewhart chart and the Shewhart cycle.
Answer
statistical. He is sometimes also known as the grandfather of statistical quality control, inventor of the Shewhart chart and the Shewhart cycle. From the Walter A. Shewhart article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Green Party. Green Party 64 · Walter A. Shewhart 61 · Ildibad 53 · Alfonso Bialetti 50 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 sometimes also known as the grandfather of statistical quality control, inventor of the Shewhart chart and the Shewhart cycle.
- W. Edwards Deming said of him: As a statistician, he was, like so many of the rest of us, self-taught, on a good background of physics and mathematics.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Walter A. Shewhart article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Walter A. Shewhart
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Walter A. Shewhart (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2009/09/01/waltershewhartsep09/, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
