[sloowm]

Why would you even use plots at all. You could just show the numbers for the 4 points represented in the box plot and people with proper education would understand. If people need diagrams it's just an education problem with some audiences.

But the real education deficit shown here is psychology education. Humans are bad at doing some calculations inherently. They are not able to properly asses pie charts and easily confused by numbers with a lot of digits. Even before these studies were done people were able to come up with visualizations that were better suited for human understanding.

People chose to use box plots because the visualization was better to understand by people than the numerical representation of the same information. Luckily there are now even better tools to represent the same numerical data in a way that is even better to understand.

So, if you are truly educated properly you don't use visualization.