Editing Telephone game (section)

==As a metaphor==
The game of Telephone is used in a number of fields as a metaphor for imperfect data transmission over multiple iterations.<ref name="Boeck 225">{{cite book |last1=Boeck |first1=Angelica |editor1-last=Kidenda |editor1-first=Mary Clare |editor2-last=Kriel |editor2-first=Lize |editor3-last=Wagner |editor3-first=Ernst |title=Visual Cultures of Africa |date=2022 |publisher=Waxmann |isbn=9783830945239 |page=225 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pVZuEAAAQBAJ&q=%22Chinese+whispers%22&pg=PA223 |access-date=5 December 2022 |chapter=Africanisation of the European - vulnerability and de-colonisation}}</ref> For example the British zoologist [[Mark Ridley (zoologist)|Mark Ridley]] in his book ''Mendel's demon'' used the game as an analogy for the imperfect transmission of genetic information across multiple generations.<ref name="Turney 2001">{{cite news |last1=Turney |first1=Jon |title=From angelic sex to sinful genes |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/from-angelic-sex-to-sinful-genes/159583.article |access-date=5 December 2022 |work=Times Higher Education |date=1 May 2001 |archive-date=5 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205151852/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/from-angelic-sex-to-sinful-genes/159583.article |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Ridley 56">{{cite book |last1=Ridley |first1=Mark |title=Mendel's demon : gene justice and the complexity of life |date=2000 |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |isbn=0297646346 |page=56 |url=https://archive.org/details/mendelsdemongene0000ridl/page/56/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+whispers%22 |access-date=5 December 2022}}</ref> In another example, [[Richard Dawkins]] used the game as a metaphor for infidelity in [[Memetics|memetic]] replication, referring specifically to children trying to reproduce drawing of a Chinese [[Junk (ship)|junk]] in his essay ''Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers''.<ref name="Sterelny 2004">{{cite journal |last1=Sterelny |first1=Kim |title=Never Apologize, Always Explain |journal=BioScience |date=May 2004 |volume=24 |issue=5 |pages=460–462 |doi=10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0460:NAAE]2.0.CO;2 |s2cid=86360983 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Dawkins 119">{{cite book |last1=Dawkins |first1=Richard |title=A devil's chaplain : selected essays |date=2003 |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |isbn=0297829734 |page=119 |url=https://archive.org/details/devilschaplainse0000dawk/page/118/mode/2up?q=%22Chinese+whispers%22 |access-date=5 December 2022}}</ref> It was used in the movie [[Tár]] to represent gossip circling within an orchestra.