6333 / 1350 = 4.7
That means 4.7 times as many fires in gasoline cars relative to electrics.
I’m not sure what the confusion is. Is it that he rounded 4.7 to 5?
You’re kidding me, right? OK, I’ll bite and pretend that you don’t really understand my point.
Five times two is ten but two is NOT “five times less” than two OK? Two is one fifth of ten or four fifths less than ten, it is twenty percent of ten or eighty percent less than ten but it is NOT five times less or the even more absurd “five hundred percent less” that I am starting to see. That would mean that five hundred percent less and eighty percent less are the same thing. Is anyone really crazy enough to believe that?
There is no such thing as five times lower, five times smaller, five times less etc. If something is ten feet tall and you make it one times lower it is flat on the ground. If you had a hundred dollars yesterday and today you have five times less the only way that can have a meaning is that today you OWE four hundred. Five times less does not mean one fifth, five times lower does not mean one fifth as high. Five times less, five hundred percent less, all that kind of stuff sounds like the babbling of an idiot, they are all mathematical impossibilites unless you want to deal in negative numbers. If I had used such expressions in a fifth grade arithmetic class I would still be in the fifth grade.