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Reading box plots

Is this some kind of cute cat video? No! Box and whisker plots seek to explain data by showing a spread of all the data points in a sample. The "whiskers" are the two opposite ends of the data. This video is more fun than a handful of catnip. Created by Sal Khan and Monterey Institute for Technology and Education.

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