When interpreting bar charts of distributions, the area of each bar (not its height) represents the probability of that outcome, and the y-axis represents probability density rather than probability.
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“the area of each one of these bars is telling us the probability of the corresponding value rather than the height. You might think of the y-axis as representing not probability but a kind of probability density”
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