failure rate
Noun
Meaning
failure rate (plural failure rates)
The frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour.
Examples
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.
The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane - or put your children on a plane - if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.