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I guess at this point in time too many people have got Antidepressants or Tolkien memorised? 😋
Never seen it before, so thank you for linking!
Damm, 15/24 correct
14/24 for me lol. I guessed nearly all of them!
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18/14 for me! I knew wayyyy more of the drugs than Tolkien characters—80% of my Tolkien answers were lucky guesses!
18/24 quite good.
15/24 I’m surprised
I love how someone with literally no knowledge of pharmaceuticals could ace this if they are pokemon players.
Basically American medical academia in the next 10 years.
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Today it’s Pokémon AND drug fun!
congrats on remembering all the drug names! you must have studied hard!
*guy that only recognised the pokemon names* yes… thank you
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The most interesting thing to me is: there has to be a whole subgenre of market research about which syllables sound “sciency”/“medical”/“effective” to certain target audiences of a drug…
I imagine this is somewhat like in my childhood as a non-native English speaker in the 90’s where most my exposure was through music and then we would make up these words from English sounding syllables that sounded “cool” to us 😄
Usually they just use Latin and or Greek language to describe the chemical structure or other properties
There is! Pharmaceutical companies have departments devoted to coming up with names. There are some legal requirements, you cannot imply your drug is the best or most effective in the name, and it cannot be a name similar to another registered pharmaceutical. Then there is market research on what names resonate the most with consumers, puts them at ease, what they like to hear, and what they would like to say.
There are two very narrow bands of people who would pass this test.
This gives me the vibe of a meme someone would share on their midwest neighborhood’s Facebook group to “prove” that Medical academia is a scam, right next to a list of “chemicals” they put in your shampoo or pet food or something.
It’s a funny little snippet but doesn’t “mean” anything. Words are silly and names for things can be hard to invent.
So a Pokémon expert would get this correct, even with zero pharmaceutical knowledge.
I bet a pharmacy expert would get this correct, even with zero pokemoneutical knowledge.
The underlying issue is that medicine names are wordy and most not overlap with an existing word or name.
I’ve played a few Pokémon games but don’t know any of these.
50:50 I like those odds
Seems like a game show question
Yeah, seems like someone could pass the test by only knowing pokemon, which isn’t what we’d want in testing people on their drug knowledge.
It also sounds like the sorts of character names Sandy would use in their games - looks like an endless pool of NPC names for the future!
