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William Sealy Gosset, an Uncommon card
William Sealy Gosset was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who worked for Guinness.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 42,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
William Sealy Gosset quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the William Sealy Gosset card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In statistics, he pioneered small-sample ______ design.
Answer
experimental. In statistics, he pioneered small-sample experimental design. From the William Sealy Gosset article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Differentiation of trigonometric functions. Differentiation of trigonometric functions 64 · William Sealy Gosset 61 · Batholith 58 · Flambé 53 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.
- In statistics, he pioneered small-sample experimental design.
- Gosset published under the pen name Student and developed Student's t-distribution – originally called Student's "z" – and "Student's test of statistical significance".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The William Sealy Gosset article was read about 42,000 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 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get William Sealy Gosset
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, William Sealy Gosset (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User Wujaszek on pl.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
