Why does most spectroscopic techniques present in ordinate axis of spectra in terms of absorption rather than transmission

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It's for convenience in working with concentrations.

Absorbance is used in beer's law and concentration is linear with absorbance. So, if the absorbance doubles, the concentration must also approximately double.

Transmittance is 1/absorbance.