The numbers speak for themselves. The credit card is indeed a reasonably good approximiation for a golden rectangle. Still, if that were the intent of whoever designed its dimensions they had every opportunity to hit the target closer than they did.

It’s unfortunate that Rob concluded with “The golden ratio has many genuine and beautiful connections with the real world, but alas Greek architecture and credit cards aren’t among them.” Again the evidence and number speak for themselves. No disrespect intended, but he admits to “being a bit of a skeptic.” I often find that skeptics dismiss findings before even taking the time to do the research.

Skeptics often seems to nod along with the dimissive claims of other skeptics, such as with an article that dismissed many truths about the golden ratio in a article in the The College Mathematics Journal back in 1992. That poorly researched article has been used an “evidence” by skeptics for many years. See my review at https://www.goldennumber.net/golden-ratio-misconceptions-by-george-markowsky-reviewed/. This article addresses the “favorite rectangle” claim, and I show how this must be based on context.

Always best to do the research and fact-checking before repeating something that you don’t fully understand! That’s even so much more true it today’s fake news biased media world.

I agree. The creditcard is a reasonably good approximation of a golden rectangle , and it should be all the more to him, since he wrote a book about the importance of estimation in every day (math) life. Maths on the Back of an Envelope by Rob Eastaway is a book that teaches practical estimation skills for everyday life. Why he does not check the creditcard remains a big mystery to me. My guess is he does not like Disney in general to (re)tell a tale like A. in Wonderland. A fairy tale he might think of as one of the heights of British popculture, like Shakespeare. But there might also be some contempt left as a result of the tea party, long ago, who knows. history has a sense of irony I guess, with Donald as president.
It is worth reading his unfairly blog on Donald, who actually never encounters or even mentions the credit card in his mathemagic land. It’s quite humourous: https://robeastaway.com/blog/golden-rectangle
He somehow blaims Donald (D), or rather the Walt Disney Studio, for the ignorant public to find and see the golden ratio in unexpected places, like a credit card. It is legit to me, if the golden horseshoe basically fits, so to speak. 268/169 Is good enough for me anyway..

It’s not an urban myth. The standard length to width dimensions of credit card very closely approximate the golden ratio. See https://www.goldennumber.net/credit-cards/. And Donald nailed it with his explanations of the golden ratio found in the Parthenon. See https://www.goldennumber.net/donald-duck-parthenon-mathmagic-land/.