I guess at this point in time too many people have got Antidepressants or Tolkien memorised? 😋
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I love how someone with literally no knowledge of pharmaceuticals could ace this if they are pokemon players.
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How long before before the instructor is able to put a trick question on the test (i.e., "Both") because The Pokemon Company has started licensing names to pharmaceutical companies?
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Join me for more pokémon or drug fun
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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 😄
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There are two very narrow bands of people who would pass this test.
So a Pokémon expert would get this correct, even with zero pharmaceutical knowledge.
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The underlying issue is that medicine names are wordy and most not overlap with an existing word or name.
And some of them sounds like Harry Potter spell.
Bena Expectorant!
I've played a few Pokémon games but don't know any of these.
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50:50 I like those odds
I guess I am getting old. The only Pokemon I recognised is Diancie😔
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Seems like a game show question
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Yeah overkill would be a terrible name for meds; this would be the easiest one
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!
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