Comment on Discussions are like a game of telephone; you're converting idea into language and expecting the recipient to flawlessly translate it back into an idea.

souperk@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s compatible with information theory. You have a piece of information, the moment you encode it (turn your idea into words) that piece of information is transposed to a little different piece of information, then the channel of transportation adds a bit of noise (depends on the environment, most often literal background noise), and then the receiver decodes the to a different piece of information (turn your words into an idea of their own).

Understanding this concept is an important communication skill. Information theory gives a bunch of tools to minimize the difference between the idea in your head and the perception of the idea by your peer.

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