The telephone game

More orally transmitted Aboriginal stories

A message can become unreliable if it passes through many intermediate speakers between the original speaker and the final listener. This is demonstrated in the telephone (Chinese whispers) game in which one person whispers a message to the ear of the next person through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group. What usually happens is that the statement announced by the last player differs significantly from that of the first player. Obviously, if a message (or story) has been retold by many people, some of it can change if people forget parts of what they are told. (more…)

February 27, 2020 | Categories: Christian, History and prophecy, Spiritual | Tags: aboriginal, bible, chinese whispers, flood, geological time scale, ice age, radiometric dating, telephone game, Tower Hill, volcanic, Warrnambool | Leave a comment