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minus-squaregrozzle@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 hours agocollective nouns are like “team” or “group”, they’re happy to be “a team” or “one group” data doesn’t work like that, people say “a data point”, or “one piece/item of data”. (because datum is almost a dead word) it’s more accurate to say data is a mass noun, a. k.a. an uncountable noun, like air, sand, rice.
collective nouns are like “team” or “group”, they’re happy to be “a team” or “one group”
data doesn’t work like that, people say “a data point”, or “one piece/item of data”. (because datum is almost a dead word)
it’s more accurate to say data is a mass noun, a. k.a. an uncountable noun, like air, sand, rice.