Characteristic halo mass m_* that corresponds to the large-scale bias b_ls in Fig. 7 for the halo bias model by Tinker et al. (2005) and the Millennium Simulation cosmology as reference (Sect. 3.1). Data points with error bars indicate the CFHTLenS galaxy samples (x-axis) and the green points are the SAM predictions. The green lines average the SAM values and rescale them by a factor of 6 (solid line for low-z) or 3 (dashed line for high-z).