What Are Outliers

question 4

Multiple Choice

What are outliers?

• A) the lowest and the highest scores in a distribution of scores
• B) the high and low scores that cause a distribution of scores to be inverted
• C) a few values that are significantly higher or lower than most values in a distribution
• D) test takers who earn scores that are very different from other test takers

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