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
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
But they benefited from self-selection by parents with the savvy to seek the best options.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2022
Public health experts generally take a dim view of booster self-selection.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021
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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