No bias -- By commenting a lot, you're overrepresenting the average HN audience. Which kind of nullifies your point, doesn't it?
You argue in other comments that it's just an education problem, but box plots are used with people who don't have this exact education you mention, and the article explains that a drawback of box plots is exactly that it isn't intuitive and takes several minutes of explanations.
In other words, the article says "I've stopped using this because they require education", and your retort is "Don't stop using these, you just need to educate people".
You argue in other comments that it's just an education problem, but box plots are used with people who don't have this exact education you mention, and the article explains that a drawback of box plots is exactly that it isn't intuitive and takes several minutes of explanations.
In other words, the article says "I've stopped using this because they require education", and your retort is "Don't stop using these, you just need to educate people".