Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Selection of or by oneself.
- noun Selection of merchandise by oneself from a display counter or rack in a store.
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- noun Selecting oneself for something.
- noun Selecting something for oneself.
- noun countable An item selected by oneself.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nonetheless, nonexperimental research cannot exclude the potential effects of self-selection, that is, the possibility that some unsuspected factor perhaps even something genetic induces both religiosity and neighborliness, producing a spurious correlation, so that simply forcing people to attend church more often would not make them more neighborly.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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But often that is still a fairly narrow slice of the population -- usually younger people, and by self-selection an audience that will more readily accept what the professor professes students are not randomly assigned to classes, after all.
L. Randall Wray: Krugman Taken to the Modern Money Cleaners L. Randall Wray 2011
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But often that is still a fairly narrow slice of the population -- usually younger people, and by self-selection an audience that will more readily accept what the professor professes students are not randomly assigned to classes, after all.
L. Randall Wray: Krugman Taken to the Modern Money Cleaners L. Randall Wray 2011
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I suspect that in general there is an inverse correlation between scholarship and the sorts of skills required for being a Dean (though this may be corrected by self-selection).
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Great Law School Dean Doesn’t Have to be a Great Scholar 2010
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But often that is still a fairly narrow slice of the population -- usually younger people, and by self-selection an audience that will more readily accept what the professor professes students are not randomly assigned to classes, after all.
L. Randall Wray: Krugman Taken to the Modern Money Cleaners L. Randall Wray 2011
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This probably indicates a self-selection bias, but it would be interesting to probe the extent of this.
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I believe the point is that there is a significant self-selection bias inherent in the survey.
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But often that is still a fairly narrow slice of the population -- usually younger people, and by self-selection an audience that will more readily accept what the professor professes students are not randomly assigned to classes, after all.
L. Randall Wray: Krugman Taken to the Modern Money Cleaners L. Randall Wray 2011
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This probably indicates a self-selection bias, but it would be interesting to probe the extent of this.
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But often that is still a fairly narrow slice of the population -- usually younger people, and by self-selection an audience that will more readily accept what the professor professes students are not randomly assigned to classes, after all.
L. Randall Wray: Krugman Taken to the Modern Money Cleaners L. Randall Wray 2011
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