Row 67873

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Wrong.

The distinction you're noticing - but misattributing - is that people often talk about a "data set," which is a singular thing, without actually saying the "set" part. **A data set is.** When it is clear from context that the data in question is being discussed as a set, using plural verbs reasonably sounds a bit off.

On the other hand, "data," referring to the individual data points in that set, is plural. **The data points are.** The thing you're missing, again, is that people often omit the word "points," and just expect us to get from context that they are talking about data points, plural. The word "data," in this usage, is a countable plural.

And yes, data are countable in the English-grammar meaning, because you can write them in a list. Or, to use the singular meaning of "data," (a set of) data is countable because you can write *it* as a list.

My favorite data set (singular) is the one where there are five data points (plural).

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text Wrong. The distinction you're noticing - but misattributing - is that people often talk about a "data set," which is a singular thing, without actually saying the "set" part. **A data set is.** When it is clear from context that the data in question is being discussed as a set, using plural verbs reasonably sounds a bit off. On the other hand, "data," referring to the individual data points in that set, is plural. **The data points are.** The thing you're missing, again, is that people ofte…
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