Comparison of the positions of the [Ne V] (red) and stellar mass- and redshift-matched control (blue) samples in the SFR–M_* plane. Upper panel: grey solid line is the Schreiber et al. (2015) MS, the grey dashed lines its 1σ dispersion. The black error bars in the bottom right are the mean uncertainties for the [Ne V] sample sources. Bottom panel: fraction of sources within the 1σ dispersion of the MS. In orange: the adopted stellar mass binning.