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[aroraborealis]

Among people using home pregnancy tests, do you think a greater proportion of them are hoping for a positive or a negative result?

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[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

I'd guess they're hoping for a negative. That has certainly been the case during most of my own experiences! (...not the time we conceived Ilana, though, fortunately.)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Negative.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing positive, because people who are TTC use LOTS of the tests, whereas people who aren't only use them occasionally when there's...um...a reason to worry.

In my many years of sexual activity, the majority of times having sex, procreation was NOT desired...and yet the number of pregnancy tests I used during those few TTC times WAY outnumbered the ones I used when not.

I blew through...probably...20 of them during my year of TTC, maybe more.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was what I was thinking as well, perhaps obviously. ;-)

It makes a big difference whether the question is "number of people" (which I think it was in this case) or "number of tests"; if it had been the latter, the answer would definitely be "positive". As to the former, I have no idea!

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

This! Among our friends, at least, I'd guess that most tests bought are by people hoping for a positive result.

A thing I'm not sure about in the wider world is how common repeated testing in hopes of a positive result might be -- it strikes me as something that might be limited to the same SES as "people who can get fertility treatment."

[primal-pastry.livejournal.com]

My gut says the majority are hoping for negative results. However, I wouldn't be surprised to find that there was strong data to the contrary.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

I embrace the power of AND. When I've used home pregnancy tests, I've been very conflicted about what the results might be.

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I am very confident that I have no sound basis on which to guess, and I suspect that most people I know would at best be making a wild guess.

[aroraborealis.livejournal.com]

Sure, that's why I asked what people think, rather than for pointers to data on the topic :)

[library-sexy.livejournal.com]

I would guess negative, but I have no data that I can use to back that up....just gut feeling on the matter.

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

Based on the way pregnancy tests are marketed (especially the ones that promise "early" results up to 5 days before an expected period), I would guess that the manufacturers think their target customers are mostly women who are trying to conceive.

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Now that you've pointed this out, I find I disagree. I think that's how they market it because a married hetero couple trying to conceive is uncontroversial. Marketing a hungover unmarried teenager who says "Oh crap! Now where can I get the morning after pill?" would get them pillioried out of existence. But really early knowledge is far more important if you want to terminate than if you want to have kids.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

That's a compelling point. It might just mean that the hoping-for-negative crowd is easier to market to, though.

[redheadedmuse.livejournal.com]

I've only ever used them when I thought I might be pregnant, and was hoping to be.