Eli5: Condom Effectiveness

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What does it mean when the statistics say that condoms are, at best, 98% effective.

It sounds like 1/50 times a condom is used, it won’t prevent pregnancy. But this doesn’t seem right because those stats wouldn’t be worth the risk.

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I wanted to warn everyone reading this that condoms are 98% effective only when used perfectly and they are actually 87% effective in real life.

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