Following the groundbreaking work of Crampin (1985), Alford (1986), Lynn and Thomsen (1990) and Lewis et al (1991), it quickly became conventional wisdom in the industry that substantial shear-wave azimuthal anisotropy is nearly ubiquitous in the subsurface. Crampin and Zatsepin (1995) made theoretical arguments that implied that most of the subsurface is azimuthally anisotropic. As industry’s ability to measure and quantify azimuthal anisotropy at a variety of scales has grown, this assumption has remained largely unexamined. Looking at over a dozen datasets, including surface 9-C seismic, 9-C VSPs, and dipole sonic logs at a number of locations in the Western US and Alberta, I have seen little unambiguous evidence of azimuthal shear-wave anisotropy despite polarization analysis of each dataset.