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Uncommon card · Science
Hearing aid, an Uncommon card
A hearing aid is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 89
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 45,000
Power 176 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Hearing aid quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hearing aid card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Hearing aids are classified as medical devices in most countries, and regulated by the ______ regulations.
Answer
respective. Hearing aids are classified as medical devices in most countries, and regulated by the respective regulations. From the Hearing aid article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Infant mortality. Infant mortality 90 · Hearing aid 87 · Educational psychology 81 · Ferrocene 78 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Infant mortality. Infant mortality 61,000 · Hearing aid 45,000 · History of modern Greece 31,000 · Kenneth E. Iverson 16,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- Hearing aids are classified as medical devices in most countries, and regulated by the respective regulations.
- Small audio amplifiers such as personal sound amplification products or other plain sound reinforcing systems cannot be sold as "hearing aids".
- Early devices, such as ear trumpets or ear horns, were passive amplification cones designed to gather sound energy and direct it into the ear canal.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hearing aid article was read about 45,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 89: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Hearing aid
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- FerroceneUncommon · Science · ATK 78 DEF 98
- Marc GarneauUncommon · History · ATK 80 DEF 96
- Bijapur SultanateUncommon · History · ATK 76 DEF 100
- Geographical distribution of German speakersUncommon · Society · ATK 82 DEF 94
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hearing aid (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jonas Bergsten, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
