Where are the hard data to support your claim?

[SuziSeis]

Heard Professor Regan saying this....is she right?

surely it should be 'is'

but I'm not a pedant at all
shouldn't even be here

tee hee trinity

I agree with you as it 'sounded' wrong but thought 'this clever woman must know best!'

data is plural (or should that be "are plural"? )
Plural of datum
But I agree, it's slipped into general use. I wrote an assignment once, using "data is" all the way through but the pedant in me wouldn't let me submit it until I'd been through and corrected each one!

The word "data" is plural (the singular is datum) so she is correct. However, use of the singular verb after "data" has become commonplace and accepted.

I was too slow

thankyou oh clever ones

plans a way to inset this into next social meeting!

Yup. 'Data are...', just like 'media are'...

I correct this all the time.