Originally Posted by
genejockey
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
Last time I checked a style manual, they still specified "data is" -- but I've been out of the academic publishing game for a while now, and it looks like standards have changed.
In other words, you is correct.