“Unboxing Group Comparisons: Discover Insights with Box & Whisker Charts 🙋”

Box & Whisker Showdown: Comparing Groups Made Simple..

Please read my this blog before you dive in. — The Power of Box Plots: A Simple Tool for Complex Data

Start with the boxes:-

They represent the interquartile range, or the middle half of the values in each group

Case — 1:- Non-overlapping boxes, groups are different.

If two boxes do not overlap with one another, say, box A is completely above or below box B, then there is a difference between the two groups.

If they overlap, move on to the lines inside the boxes.

Case — 2:- Boxes overlap but don’t spread past both medians: groups are likely to be different.

The middle lines:

These are the medians, the “middle” values of each group. If the median line of box A lies outside of box B entirely, then there is likely to be a difference between the two groups.