The process of deleting responses on both ends of the distribution of a variable is known as
A) outlier deletion.
B) transforming the data.
C) trimming the data.
D) cleaning the data.

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Trimming the data involves removing extreme scores or outliers from the data set to reduce the effect of these extreme values on the analysis. This process specifically refers to deleting responses on both ends of the distribution to create a more normalized data set.

The Process of Deleting Responses on Both Ends of the Distribution