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Is the chat necessarily synonymic of success on the Internet? It is typically the kind of question that channel YouTube "The statistics explained to my chat" (La statistique expliquée à mon chat ) could handle. In view of the success, we would be tempted to answer affirmatively. In fact, the channel records more than 150,000 subscribers at the time when we write these lines. Its videos make tens, if there are not hundreds of thousand views.
Nevertheless, the approached subject is far from being a bait in click: statistics. But the pedagogy, the attractive envelope and the lolcats make all the difference.
Statistics, chats, YouTube channel
Based on the project, there is Nathan Uyttendaele, a doctor in science and assistant in the Catholic University of Leuven. While he works on his thesis, he has the idea to create videos concerning his research themes. Because we are on the Internet, the chat’s presence seems to be inescapable. The PhD student does not need it any more to launch his channel YouTube with the help of Laura Maugeri, computer graphic designer, and Gwenaël Grisi, a composer, both contacted on Web.
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Very fast, the trio imposes their style. The curvature of chats and the brilliant colors come to soften the rough character of the theme on the background of charming music. On "The statistics explained to my chat", we speak about the rule of large numbers, the limit central theorem and differential calculus. We knew more consumers.
But the expertise and the pedagogy of Nathan Uyttendaele eventually hit the target. It is necessary to say that concerning the vulgarisation, he is not for his first attempt. In fact, he participated in the competition "My thesis in 180 seconds" in 2016 for which he became the finalist.
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The statistics for the invalid (but not that)
The videos of "The statistics explained to my chat" owed from five to ten minutes. They make on screen the famous chat Albert, surrounded, according to needs, of his friend Oscar, Max and Emily. The narrator (Nathan Uyttendaele) helps them solve practical cases which are the opportunities to return to notions of statistics. If certain technical subjects address particularly students, others may be more interested in the public lambda.
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Nathan Uyttendaele does not refrain to handle social issues. In these contents, they do not hesitate to graze certain media quick to confuse vulgarisation and simplification on the edge of the disinformation. This is the way in which a video on the average wage of the Belgian people becomes the opportunity to call back the imprecision of this figure that is far from reflecting exact distribution of salaries. The author likes involving through studies making improbable links (for example, between consumption of diet drinks and risk of cerebrovascular accident or even between consumption of chocolate and intelligence) to defuse recurring confusion between correlation and causality. Videos are often accompanied by a long description having the function of a complement. There are so many "footnotes" sending back to the studies quoted by the narrator.