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#1 (permalink) Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:22 am Singular or plural: statistics show[s] that

I have used Google to search on the internet "statistics shows that" and "statistics show that" , and there are both of them. So "statistics" is actually singular or plural noun ?

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#2 (permalink) Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:38 am Singular or plural: statistics show[s] that

Statistics is a plural noun so "Statistics show that............." is correct.

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