______ are rare, extreme scores that lie outside of the range of the majority of scores in a set of data.

A) Distributions
B) Outliers
C) Data point
D) Data errors

Outliers are extreme scores that are significantly different from other scores in a dataset. They lie outside of the majority of scores and can introduce bias or distortions in data analyses. Distributions refer to the pattern of scores in a dataset, data point is any individual score in the dataset, and data errors refer to mistakes or inaccuracies in the data.