self-selection
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Goodwill’s 5% is partially due to self-selection, but its success comes from being hands-on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
And self-selection is a part of these studies; patients who go home choose to go home.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
The report said that self-selection process is concentrated, in some instances, by separate hiring timelines used by some judges.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
But there’s surely a huge self-selection bias at work there because the artists who are active in the Midjourney Discord are bound to be the ones who will be excited by it.
From The Verge ● Aug. 2, 2022
Perverse as the old restrictions often were, they had in them a notion of self-selection such as is needed now, if only the criteria and standards which are correct can be ascertained.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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