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Btw, something that really confused me when I was younger: "98% effectiveness" doesn't mean a condom works 98% of the time, and 2% of the time you can get pregnant.
It actually means that 98% of people that use a condom never get pregnant, and 2% do (over some amount of time I'm guessing? I'm not sure).
That 2% includes forgetting to use one, running out and being too horny to abstain, and various other excuses for why you're not wearing one when you've agreed beforehand that you would.
I believe it's over a period of one year.
Yep, using a condom and it working as it should is 100% effective, but they can't say that because if it breaks or someone wears one that's too big then it would open them to lawsuits
Not so. The 98% figure assumes correct use of the condom every time. In the real world where people are imperfect, condoms are only about 87% effective.
This constantly came up in WoW, from the opposite direction.
A 2% drop rate doesn't mean a 100% chance 2% of the time, it means a 2% chance 100% of the time.
The human brain does a very poor job at understanding chance. A lot of games use seeded pseudo-randomness for this reason. They'll even give the player a slightly better percentage than advertised and there will still be people calling foul.