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> Box plots don't make anything bell shaped (...), they assume that your data follows a bell/gaussian shape.

Not true. Box plots represent low and and high quantiles independently and support the representation of outliers.

This alone is enough to make it clear for everyone that they don't require a distribution to be symmetric, let alone bell shape.



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