[These335]

Sure there are alternatives and I agree with the author's criticisms overall. But boxplots are a staple in statistics, and if your audience can reasonably be assumed to have some level of statistical training then boxplots are perfectly reasonable in my opinion.

[sloowm]

Are you sure that well trained audiences are able to accurately asses box plots. For instance, most drivers think they are better than average drivers.

It being a staple in statistics is also not a good argument. The information conveyed through box plots is used in lots of fields with different education backgrounds. If a visualization, which in itself is a human simplification of data, is hard to understand, it will be misunderstood by some. This means these people will not be able to advance their field of research as well as with better visualization methodologies.

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

Would you care to address the specific argument that the author makes about not using box plots with audiences? I swear, statisticians are among the most inertia-prone groups of people that I’ve ever worked with. You need a certain degree of “do it this way because it’s done this way” to deal with the amount of BS going on in this field.