(Adnkronos) - “Questo festival punta a portare la statistica in città, nei luoghi in cui tutti viviamo quotidianamente, in modo più semplice, divulgativo e digeribile per tutti, quando solitamente è una materia considerata un po’ difficile e ostica”. Lo ha detto Rina Camporese, dirigente Servizio di coordinamento della promozione della cultura statistica e della diffusione dei dati a livello territoriale dell’Istat, a margine della terza giornata di lavori di StatisticAll, il festival della statistica e della demografia.
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00:00The meaning of this festival, added to the 10th edition, what does it aim for?
00:09It aims to bring statistics in the city, in the places where we all live on a daily basis,
00:15in a simpler and more divulgative way and, let's say, digestible for everyone,
00:19while usually it is a matter considered a bit difficult and hostile.
00:23Besides, we also see it behind us, it is called Statistics Without Borders, the CLAIM,
00:28because borders are not only physical, i.e. territorial borders.
00:32No, they are both geographical, but they are also cultural borders
00:37and difficulties of approach to know reality through numbers,
00:41which we in Italy have, because we are a bit afraid of numbers and mathematics,
00:45which, on the other hand, are beautiful and can be discovered by playing.
00:48We deal, let's say, from nursery school, because before we still have some difficulties,
00:53but we can do it, up to the whole age range,
00:56up to the people who have an older age,
00:59and we do it through play and hand-in-hand involvement.
01:02I'll give you an example.
01:03Yesterday we worked at the library of the boys here in Treviso,
01:07with the children, from nursery school to the first elementary classes,
01:10on the words of probability.
01:12So, by building a tail of peacock that can be opened like a fan of words,
01:18we made them think about all the nuances of uncertainty between certain and impossible,
01:25because building the language then gives the boys the possibility
01:29to better understand the concepts of uncertainty and probability
01:33that they will study when they are older.
01:35Another example, always based on a change of language,
01:38because we do not present statistics with formulas,
01:40we talk about it so that everyone can understand,
01:42and the language used, for example, I don't know if you can see it,
01:45is this comic, for example, presented for the boys a little older,
01:50in which, working with a screenwriter and a designer,
01:53we built a story that talks about gender inequality.
01:58Let's say the game is a swap between the bodies and the minds of a boy and a girl,
02:05who therefore enter into a forced empathy, in this case,
02:08in the eyes of each other,
02:11and experience gender differences,
02:13which are then documented by real statistical data in the story.
02:17The effort that ISTAT makes, also thanks to events like this,
02:21is to communicate important information for everyday life,
02:24to decide how to move, what choices to make in everyday life,
02:28in a language that is understandable to everyone.
02:31So what can be displayed on the ISTAT website in the form of a table,
02:35here at the festival is told with a dialogue, with a story, with a verbal story.
02:41The feedback is important to us,
02:43I'm talking about my personal experience,
02:46which is more related to the relationship with young people.
02:49The feedback is when we are able to build a strong relationship
02:55with children and even older boys,
02:57for whom they come out with a smile, having learned something.
03:01They testify to us because they want to come back,
03:03because they hug us when they come out.
03:05And it is precisely the way we build
03:09to enter into a relationship with our audience,
03:12because the exchange of knowledge, which is reciprocal,
03:15happens in a pleasant and fun way.
03:17So far, I have to say that it works.