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The youtube channel Tibees recently posted a nice half-hour video titled "Fibonacci slop is out of control". It discusses the difference between being inspired by Fibonacci numbers to study math and making myths with Fibonacci numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWJzirlCv8I Here is the citation to a good paper that she refers to. Markowsky, George, 1992. "Misconceptions about the Golden Ratio", The College Mathematics Journal, 23(1), pp. 2-19. https://assets.speakcdn.com/assets/2433/wijetunge-resource_4.pdf George Markowsky wrote again on this topic in the Notices of the AMS. Markowsky, George, 2005. "The Golden Ratio", Notices of the AMS, 52(3), pp. 344-347. https://www.ams.org/notices/200503/rev-markowsky.pdf The British mathematician Hannah Fry makes a similar point about the Greek Parthenon in this 2 minute video in the link below. The Parthenon's actual geometry is more interesting than the myths about its design being based on the golden number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4tSre9bqQM