Noun : goods arranged on shelves for customer self-selection.    From Dictionary.com. 

Dr. WEAST: There might be a bit of self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Important Is Economic Diversity In Schools?] Reference

Call it self-selection, or maybe just self-interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Even a small self-selection bias can skew the results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can they do a poll to learn what kind of people hang up on pollsters?] Reference

Seems like your sample might have a self-selection bias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where I was when I was out of my milieu.] Reference

But there isn't usually self-selection into a treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inducing Value in Virtual Worlds] Reference

The Pink House, too, was a case study in self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [all Alpha's sons shall be] Reference

It's got a-- it has an unfortunate kind of self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline] Reference

And how about the self-selection of those who spank and don't?.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIVE Blog: Chat with us during the show] Reference

The students are more intelligent than I was, perhaps self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [21st Century Science Fiction | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference

You've probably never seen anyone get sick because of self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The FREAKest Links: Gaming Teens and E-Mail Stress Edition - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Or, multiple universes exist, and we are the lucky self-selection outcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Please Tell Me What “God” Means] Reference

On a larger scale, there's something fiercely democratic about self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jill Di Donato: Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful] Reference

Possibly the fun & induced value concerns come around to self-selection issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inducing Value in Virtual Worlds] Reference

Put the experiment into an MMO and the self-selection problem starts to loom large.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inducing Value in Virtual Worlds] Reference

We cannot observe a counterfactual and we cannot eliminate the question of self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Online Communities and Flawed Reasoning Sound a Death Knell for Qualitative Methods] Reference

So the first question I have is, do you think there's a still a self-selection involved here?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Important Is Economic Diversity In Schools?] Reference

As you know, the African Crisis Response Initiative is a self-selection process by and large.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Joe Wilson Senior Director For Africa Nsc] Reference

I believe the point is that there is a significant self-selection bias inherent in the survey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Your Lawyer’s Wrong:] Reference

In any case, there's communication outside of your control and self-selection in your subjects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glovebox and the Glovatar] Reference

It allows scaling by self-selection, in the same way that World of Warcraft does with its zones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Wide World – Random Encounters « Geek Related] Reference

The Membership Action Plan is available to all declared aspirants on the basis of self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nato Fact Sheet On Membership Action Plan] Reference

There was no preselection but, instead, there was a self-selection over the length of the career.    From Wordnik.com.  [THIRD FEU STUDENT CONGRESS] Reference

As a result, the structure of the book is designed to facilitate self-selection based on interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

HEWITT: A little bit of that, but the most important think in the elite media is its self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 28, 2006] Reference

One has to rely on self-selection related to value sets to get a macro understanding of this measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Metrics of Use] Reference

Only little fly in the intment here is that self-selection is not a very efficient way of distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

There is some degree of self-selection into any experiment, and that should be a concern to any experimenter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inducing Value in Virtual Worlds] Reference

This kind of self-selection means you should experiment with various posting styles to figure out what works for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Pillars of Success] Reference

Michael Cannon describes how the self-selection process in politics works against my ideas for reforming health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [EconLog: Political Economy Archives] Reference

The homogeneity of today's military is partly a product of self-selection, as the services seek out the most eager volunteers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Should Mirror the Nation] Reference

So, this forced self-selection is created and is passed down as a culturual attitude, even as the reasons for it begin to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

MARTIN: Well, the question I think some people would ask are, number one, is there still an element of self-selection involved?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Important Is Economic Diversity In Schools?] Reference

Is a consequence of such self-selection that they will form groups in ways that are atypical to those formed in society at large?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me vs. The Archbishop] Reference

Is a consequence of such self-selection that they will form groups in ways that are atypical to those formed by society at large?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me vs. The Archbishop] Reference

As a result, it does not have the self-selection issues that the first such surveys have had, and the response rate was impressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [September 2008] Reference

Or is the leg up the military culture gives people a product of self-selection people tending to do well anyway joining the service?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Like Me] Reference

Now the "talent" side of the talent vs practice argument can come up with a quick explanation for the practice effect: self-selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?] Reference

One answer is self-selection - the same sort of self-selection that leads Republicans to outnumber Democrats four to one in the military.    From Wordnik.com.  [From On High] Reference

But then also, you know, you have to understand, the young people who are here come from -- I mean there's a self-selection that goes on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2002] Reference