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The Longer Something Doesn't Happen, the Sooner It Will

by arthurbrown on 1/29/24, 12:18 AM with 2 comments

• by its-summertime on 1/29/24, 1:21 AM

  > This is often referred to as the "Laws of Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)"

  The link makes no mention of "law", and does not say anything about if the prediction is accurate.

• by jj999 on 1/29/24, 2:46 AM

  Also called the gambler's fallacy.