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

3 points| arthurbrown | 2 years ago |wilhelm.codes

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its-summertime|2 years ago

> 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.

jj999|2 years ago

Also called the gambler's fallacy.