Audio-only version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8T1M61bwM0

How effective are contraceptives? What does effectiveness of contraceptives even mean, particularly for people who use them for a long time? In this first episode of Statistically Insignificant - a "podcast" about statistics and everyday life - we explore these questions. We also talk about how vaccine effectiveness is not measured the same way.

References: Polis, C. B., Bradley, S. E., Bankole, A., Onda, T., Croft, T., & Singh, S. (2016). Typical-use contraceptive failure rates in 43 countries with Demographic and Health Survey data: summary of a detailed report. Contraception, 94(1), 11-17.

Trussell, J. (2011). Contraceptive failure in the United States. Contraception, 83(5), 397-404.

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