Survey distribution of rocky planets that would be detectable for a space-based direct imaging survey with an 8 m diameter telescope. Left panel shows the distribution of planets if there is no injected trend in albedo, while the right panel shows the case where there is a strong trend in albedo (ΔA = 0.4). This distribution was generated by simulating the output of exoEarth surveys (analogous to Figure 1) for 1000 simulated universes. Plots are color coded based on the number of recovered planets in each bin. One can clearly see the influence of population-level trends in albedo in the output, where there is a prominent dip at instellations corresponding to the HZ.