Is data singular or plural?
Traditionally plural, with datum as the singular, so the data were collected. In practice many disciplines now accept the singular, and APA prefers the plural. Check your field's convention and, more importantly, be consistent within the document. Switching between the two in one paper is what gets graded.
This comes up on Common Grammar Errors, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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