Biden Boom? November Inflation Highest In Nearly 40 Years

Federalist ^ | 12/10/2021 | Jordan Boyd

[Bernard]

Data is the plural form of datum.

[CodeToad]

‘Data’ is a singular collection, not a plurality.

[DoodleBob]

1. Ok. Do you have a more accurate, consistently-recorded and validated time-series of price data?

2. The word data came into English as the plural of the Latin word datum, which means “a single piece of information.” If people are cool with modernity's twisting of data into a singular noun, then the idiotic process of verbing is also kosher.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

Agree, compare apples to apples, they continue to tweak the numbers so they don’t look so bad.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I don’t Trump would or should claim this “recovery.”

[unclebankster]

“That ‘data’ came from the BLS, an extreme left-wing government organization that has been caught lying so many times it is a running joke.”

CodeToad,

Is there another organization that does the same thing as the BLS?

I’d like to compare their numbers to the BLS numbers.

[Vaduz]

Don’t believe your lying eyes and hunger pains there is no inflation.

Joe Biden & Co.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Not to mention the use of “their” with singular nouns to placate the feminists and “persons-of-dubious-gender.”

[FreedBird]

Biden must be destroying the country deliberately. He wants more dependence on Government.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Do you have a more accurate, consistently-recorded and validated time-series of price data?

Very few people who actually live in the US would use the word "accurate" to describe those numbers.

[Elsie]

Merriam-Webster

Is data singular or plural?: Usage Guide

Data leads a life of its own quite independent of datum, of which it was originally the plural.

It occurs in two constructions: as a plural noun (like earnings), taking a plural verb and plural modifiers (such as these, many, a few) but not cardinal numbers, and serving as a referent for plural pronouns (such as they, them); and as an abstract mass noun (like information), taking a singular verb and singular modifiers (such as this, much, little), and being referred to by a singular pronoun (it).

Both constructions are standard.

The plural construction is more common in print, evidently because the house style of several publishers mandates it.

[Elsie]

Here is 87 octane from Greenfield, IN area since election:

9/21/2020	$1.95
10/2/2020	$1.97
10/12/2020	$2.05
10/25/2020	$2.03
11/2/2020	$1.76
11/13/2020	$1.85
11/21/2020	$1.73
11/30/2020	$1.80
12/8/2020	$1.83
12/19/2020	$2.18
12/28/2020	$2.20
12/30/2020	$1.96
1/3/2021	$2.08
1/7/2021	$2.10
1/11/2021	$2.16
1/26/2021	$2.31
2/6/2021	$2.20
2/15/2021	$2.40
2/24/2021	$2.49
3/6/2021	$2.54
3/12/2021	$2.51
3/23/2021	$2.44
3/31/2021	$2.80
4/8/2021	$2.58
4/23/2021	$2.70
5/4/2021	$2.80
5/15/2021	$2.80
5/26/2021	$2.69
6/3/2021	$2.82
6/11/2021	$2.95
6/20/2021	$2.76
6/28/2021	$3.06
7/8/2021	$3.26
7/21/2021	$3.19
7/30/2021	$2.83
8/11/2021	$2.96
8/19/2021	$3.08
8/25/2021	$2.76
9/14/2021	$2.84
9/25/2021	$3.10
10/8/2021	$3.22
10/19/2021	$3.27
10/30/2021	$3.07
11/8/2021	$3.41
11/16/2021	$3.21
12/1/2021	$2.94
12/10/2021	$2.82

Can you say 100% in one year??!!??