The original journal article (just posted another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139081) had "per

The original journal article (just posted another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42139081) had "person-is-an-object-of-study" which makes more sense. And this is also the only version you find quoted if you search in Google Books; all quotes of the other material are probably propagating errors from some earlier transcription error (that precedes the he-or-she).