Babylonian Biometrics and Widespread Methodological Shortcomings | Communications of the ACM
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3744705

I just finished reading this. An interesting look into poor academic citation practices (leading to citogenesis https://xkcd.com/978/), historical accuracy, and biometrics.

Also, this is a good read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents

#academia #citogenesis #babylon #history #fingerprints #biometrics

"In 2011, Randall Munroe in his comic xkcd coined the term "citogenesis" to describe the creation of "reliable" sources through circular reporting. This is a list of some well-documented cases where Wikipedia has been the source."

Wikipedia:List of citogenesis incidents
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents

#citogenesis #wikipedia

It is #citogenesis! The book that Wikipedia cites just has one line: "She [Sor Juana] was also a student of scientific thought and experiment, and corresponded with English scientist Isaac Newton."

And in its sources, it lists Wikipedia!

Whatever, in my headcanon #SorJuana was a physicist of #Newtonian calibre.