They talked about self-selecting their social groups as adults as a way of feeling more socially at ease.
For its part, cable news eventually morphed into bloviating talking heads that succeeded in dividing our self-selecting viewing nation.
Relatively few students are enrolled in voucher schemes, and studies of them are controversial because these are mostly self-selecting samples.
And regardless, physicians complain that patients who do respond are a self-selecting group, either extremely happy with or furious at their doctors.
Actually, by self-selecting, they are doing you a great favor.
This, the study's authors suggest, was not surprising, given that on the whole only women with few risk factors are likely to be able to book a homebirth and they were thus a self-selecting group.
And eight in 10 said they had been verbally abused by a pupil in the past year, according to the self-selecting survey, which was carried out online and by post between February and March this year.
Consider the self-selecting nature of posts with emoticons ones containing smiley faces seem sure to disproportionately feature information about kitties and soccer practices, while ones containing frowns are sure to be heavy on teenage nerd girls beefing with their boyfriends.
Messrs Skelcher and Davis's research, which predated the Nolan reforms, also found evidence that the great and the good were to a large extent self-selecting: even in quangos where ministers have the final say, they found that most new members were chosen by the existing board often by personal recommendation.
应用推荐