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To: Wizzer who wrote (1294)	5/17/1998 6:45:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Wissam, The plural form data is correct in all three of your examples, but you should have used "these" in referring to "data" rather than "this". The singular form datum is rarely used. If you had presented a single statistic regarding the TV viewing habits, you might have referred to it as "this datum". Jack

To: Wizzer who wrote (1294)	5/19/1998 1:59:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit	Respond to of 4711

Wisam, may I suggest this as the proper use: I am doing a statistical study on family TV viewing. The study is comprised of a set of numbers that I have compiled from a number of families, which indicates how much TV each family watched per day (in hours). I must process these data and give a statistical representation that will be known as "average family TV usage". Ultimately, a mean calculation of the compiled data will lead me to an average usage for my sample group. All of the calculated data will be used by network programmers to determine their general programming requirements. I substituted the phrase calculated data in order to distinguish it from raw data. It was not clear which of the two you intended. TTFN, CTC