How many times have you seen (or heard someone say) something like, "The data shows that 40,000 women will die of breast cancer this year"? Actually, "the data shows" nothing of the sort. For a start, the word "data" is the plural of the singular word "datum" -- from Latin, and the word "datum" originally …
How good a communicator are you?
Every year I read a lot of material: novels, biographies, history, scientific and medical articles, clinical trial protocols, media releases, you name it. But there is a very small number of books that I re-read -- assiduously, every single year. Two of them are: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Charles L. Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) …