self-selection
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- self-selected adjective
Example Sentences
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Their insight: Outcome-based penalties only work when embedded in a menu that first induces honest self-selection.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
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
Public health experts generally take a dim view of booster self-selection.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021
Laws against incest and all caste rules which arbitrarily limit the number of persons whom a given individual may marry may be regarded as blind attempts of mankind to practice some kind of self-selection.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
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