self-selected

• “When KIPP tried to take over a regular public school – where the students are not self-selected, but are assigned to the school; and where students not only leave, but large number of students enter — KIPP abandoned the field after just two years.”

  The Washington Post: Does KIPP shed too many low-performers?

• “Often, when I talk about the Arava Institute transforming students in how they understand the conflict, I am told that is because they are self-selected so they are more open to such an approach.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi Michael M. Cohen: Nature Without Borders

• “What the poll shows is that Ron Paul is still very adept at winning polls with self-selected respondents.”

  Elections 2012

• “Yes, but it is a random lottery among the self-selected.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Harlem Charter's Parental Advantage

• “These are not votes, they are are polls, and they are polls of self-selected respondents who have internet access and the interest to respond.”

  America's New Space "Nodule" - NASA Watch

• “The 60 schools from which activist sympathizers sent in dust samples were not objectively chosen -- they were self-selected by campaigners.”

  The Huffington Post: Jon Entine: Plastic Wars: Science Loses in Renewed Campaign Against Plasticizers

• “Finally, since this is an unscientific survey, the respondents will be self-selected.”

  The "Official" Bang-flop survey

• “They also allege that the reported amount for graduates' average salaries is inflated since it is derived from the narrow, self-selected pool of people who actually provide that information to the schools.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Law Grads Sue Over Tuition

• “But I usually hunt far enough into the backcountry that that curious aversion of mine generally takes care of ­itself — self-selected against such intrusion by distance and terrain.”

  The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison

• “They are a tiny, self-selected minority of Americans whom the government has called upon again and again to serve in its long-festering post-9/11 occupations.”

  The Huffington Post: Nick Turse: What Sebastian Junger and Restrepo Won't Tell You About War

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