self-selection
noun
selection made by or for oneself.
self-selected
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a word derived from
self-selection.
Example Sentences
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Guys from similar parts of Mexico tended to hang out with each other; the central Americans self-selected; the troques didn’t do too much mixing with the guys on bikes.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
For the study, students self-selected their gender cohort and were assigned to a session on a first-come first-serve basis.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
His self-selected call sign back then was U0, or youling in Chinese, a homonym for the word “ghost.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
And my understanding of the values in the U.S. was propped up by my self-selected bubbles in big coastal cities where I saw the fairytale cliché that echoed my idealistic views.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
Similarly, unless your poll sample is randomly selected and not self-selected, the poll results usually mean very little.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
