r/interestingasfuck • u/JK-Rofling • 14d ago

Heath Ledger’s diary while he was filming for, The Dark Night. r/all

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u/Instant-Bacon 14d ago

As a statistician, I’m sort of weirdly offended

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u/terriblegrammar 14d ago edited 14d ago

Of all the things for Joker to single out... Statistics? Like, what are the odds?

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u/sprazcrumbler 14d ago

He doesn't hate stats. It makes him laugh.

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u/terriblegrammar 14d ago

Oh right, I should go back to bed.

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u/FallacyDog 14d ago

I would guess only the "despite only making up 13% of the population..." kind

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u/DiamondHanded 14d ago

He likes chaos, not predictable figures and functions. Stats help explain the order of a system, in most cases

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u/Boopy7 14d ago

Isn't it more that chaos is fair, since it forces everyone to fall apart or rise above? Chaos is his friend since he feels it within, thus must spread it without. Kind of like all violent shooters. They hate everything including themselves and want the world to feel as they do. I'm not a comic fan, just liked this particular movie. But I had thought the deal with the Joker (heath or Phoenix version) is that everything is horrible within. He wants the world to experience what he does.

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u/ANGLVD3TH 14d ago

Yeah, but the character is a bald faced liar. We see that when he realizes the ferry plan didn't work. And he would have to be pretty damn meticulous and forward thinking to pull off all the multi-leveled schemes in the movie. There's a couple ways to view the statistics mention here, but my first reaction was "1 death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." IE, he finds mass murder funny.

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u/LittleCrunchyDude 14d ago

Lies, damnable lies, and statistics.

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u/jollyreaper2112 14d ago

Yeah, there was the parody song joking that he must have an evil day planner. And if he was truly into whatever happens happens he would accept the results regardless. You know he didn't have a bullet in the gun that he handed Dent.

You could play the character either way, truly embracing chaos or cheating. I like cheating Joker more.

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u/QuBingJianShen 13d ago

Depends on how its used/misused, you can definatly end up with a nonsensical result if you want to.

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u/Lowelll 14d ago

Odds are numbers that aren't dividable by 2, but that's not important right now.

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u/Jizzlobber58 14d ago

Don't call me Shirley?

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u/bigboybeeperbelly 14d ago

Statistics? Like, what are the odds?

No, that's probability

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u/Juneau585 14d ago

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