Color, stellar mass, and SFR properties of the VUDS+ spectroscopic and parent photometric sample. Left: rest-frame color–stellar mass diagram of an observed-frame NIR-selected sample of z_phot and z_spec objects in across the three VUDS fields. The fraction of z_phot objects with a secure spectral redshift in each color/stellar mass bin is indicated by the color bar. In each color/stellar mass bin the number of z_spec and z_phot objects are given by the upper and lower number in each box, respectively. Only those bins that contained ten or more z_phot objects are plotted. This plot is nearly identical to the right panel of Fig. 4, but here the bins are coarser to reflect the size used to perform the weighted Monte Carlo SFR–δ_gal analysis presented in this section. Right: color–stellar mass diagram of the z_phot sample plotted in the left panel with the color bar now corresponding to the average SED-fit SFR of all objects in that bin. No color or stellar mass limits are imposed on the galaxies plotted here, and two-dimensional bins are now plotted if they contain at least one object. The average SFR is seen to vary smoothly as a function of color and stellar mass over the range plotted. While the clear preference of the VUDS+ spectral sampling toward bluer galaxies at fixed M_* appears to potentially bias the spectral sample to higher SFRs, from the analysis presented in this section we conclude that this potential bias does not drive the significant positive correlation between SFR and δ_gal seen in the full VUDS+ sample.