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by mjfisher 733 days ago
The author mentions those at the bottom of the article, but two problems highlighted still remain:

* There's another intermediary concept (kernel density estimation) between the audience and the data

* They're still likely to misrepresent tight groupings and discontinuities, which will be smoothed out

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Histograms and box plots are just clunky kernels density estimates too