Originally Posted by
43Inches
I think you need to work on your comprehension of statistics, being 5 times less likely to get something and 30 times less likely to be affected by it is not
No offence intended but what I wish people would work on in any branch of mathematics is the basics such as you do not express a lower value by using a
multiplication of the original, higher value by a whole number. "5 times" what? Does "5 times" mean one fifth, ie 20% of something else, or one sixth being the five x plus the one, ie 17%? The correct method is to use a fraction.
This lesson is taught in secondary school or possibly even primary, I don't remember. I'm not sure what they teach today aside from critical race theory, the new reality of 57 genders and Bruce Pascoe's Aussie "history" but this method of expressing values is becoming very common as the general population is dumbed down bit by bit. It's always disappointing to see supposedly well-educated professional pilots making these errors.