The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition

question? How might they respond to your argument? Will they trust your evidence? Will they have other evidence in mind?

I’m working on X because I want to find out Y, so that I (and you) can better understand Z

Data are inert, however, until you use them to support a claim that answers your research question. At that point, your data become evidence. If you don’t have more data than you can use as evidence, you haven’t collected enough.