Originally Posted by
genejockey
Stack not blown, dude.
Well, you did describe it as a "rant," and used some ALL CAPS stuff:
Jesus, people! "Data" is the PLURAL!!! "The data ARE out there"..."the data DON'T support the argument."
If you're going to waste time arguing about personal preferences as if they're empirically derived, you could at least do it grammatically.
/rant
Originally Posted by
genejockey
And it's not that you're being pedantic. It's that you're being WRONG.
Umm...no.