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Why are the gut bacteria bars not in proportion to the percentages shown with numbers?
Why are the gut bacteria bars not in proportion to the percentages shown with numbers?
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Written by Yogesh Morjaria
Updated over 5 months ago

The abundance of individual bacteria can vary over a very large range, from <0.01% up to >10%. We therefore scale the bar length according to the logarithm of the bacteria’s abundance, which means that changes in the abundance are visible over the whole of this very large range, but not in linear proportion to the numbers.

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