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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Probability & Statistics
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 09:18:01 EDT
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> the woman calmly stated, "I'm a statistic."  Birth control methods DO
> fail, and better to have had some discussion of "what if" before one is
> faced with making a decision.

What's interesting is how much faith people put in the methods that have
a high (10-20%) failure rate, in preference to those that have a low (1%)
failure rate but have a higher probability of adverse side-effects; as
if the failures were not a side-effect themselves...

> *Paper Chase* did a recent episode ...

You mean Paper Chase is still on?  I thought it got cancelled years ago.
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