Noticing that while a lot of people are meticulous about using the plural verb with “data” they are less meticulous, and even reluctant, to use the plural pronoun.

Perhaps this is an accepted usage I don’t know about but I heard Chairman Powell doing it a lot during his remarks last week. The data always were, the data was always it.

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