Who's your Daddy?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Still, you can get pregnant (or impregnant someone) - proper usage or not. Even BCP, used correctly are only 99% effective.

Yes, but Prudence's point was that the 1:25 figure is 4 times the expected pregnency rate of 1%. Her assumption was that that meant that a huge number of people were taking no precautions. In reality, a 4% failure rate is pretty close to (or possibly even less common) what's expected based on most estimates of the rate of improper use of contraception (e.g. forgetting to take today's pill, or not knowing how to put a freaking rubber on correctly). So the high number probably doesn't indicate a particularly large rate of people not protecting themselves as she first assumed.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Yes, but Prudence's point was that the 1:25 figure is 4 times the expected pregnency rate of 1%. Her assumption was that that meant that a huge number of people were taking no precautions. In reality, a 4% failure rate is pretty close to (or possibly even less common) what's expected based on most estimates of the rate of improper use of contraception (e.g. forgetting to take today's pill, or not knowing how to put a freaking rubber on correctly). So the high number probably doesn't indicate a particularly large rate of people not protecting themselves as she first assumed.

It's not that I assumed they were taking no precautions, it's that I assumed that people cheating would go out of their way to make sure they took extra special precaution. And I now readily conceed that people, as a rule, are maroons and probably don't do that after all.

Maroons.