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Old 04-16-2006, 06:54 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Acetylene
The odds are that if you keep having sex for 100 years, then you'll have one kid.
Hang on. What we're dealing with in this thread is a classic example of the Gambler's Fallacy.

That 99.7% effective is for each act of intercourse. It's a logical fallacy to think that the remaining .3% builds up to an inescapable preganacy after long enough. It's just like a guy at a slot machine thinking he's due a win. Doesn't work like that.
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