To be sure it is an unreliable self-selected poll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gloria Feldt: Obama Is Right: Words Matter When You Want Your Opponent to Leave the Race] Reference

    "Of course not," the self-selected emissary said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odyssey]

Simon self-selected -- we didn't have to recruit him at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President At New Democrat Network Dinner] Reference

These were a self-selected group, people who had already left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China] Reference

They had already been self-selected through a number of conferences.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2006] Reference

It was self-selected stuff — why don't you turn that off and I'll go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Maggie W. Ray, November 9, 2000. Interview K-0825. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

This executive has self-selected to support a discussion with your firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucia Brawley: Greatest Hits of the Community Marketing Blog-Of] Reference

Google "literary digest poll of 1936" to see how bad a self-selected poll can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: MA-SEN Race Is A Toss-Up -- GOPer Brown Has One-Point Edge] Reference

“He has self-selected to a small group of people who can figure everything out.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would You Take a Tumblr With This Man?] Reference

These 259 companies are part of a self-selected group that chooses to work with HRC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marc Gunther: Big Business and Gay Rights] Reference

Only in Britain is there a self-selected cadre of external speech monitor apparachiks.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

While it is true that participants were self-selected, their responses are eye-popping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Hilton Andersen: You Can't Look Like a Pin-Up and Eat Like a Linebacker] Reference

Migrants are a self-selected minority who tend to be young, hardworking and enterprising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let Them In] Reference

In a voluntary association formed to accomplish a definite purpose we have a self-selected group.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference

The Dobbs Ferry Party, the self-selected guardians of the status quo, were no longer be in power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aftermath of the Candidate's Debate] Reference

REICH: Remember, my students at the John F. Kennedy School of Government are a self-selected group.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Work of Nations] Reference

All the agony we're witnessing is largely caused by the self-selected few who are insulated from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Franken: TV Afterthoughts] Reference

"We're suggesting they can compare ABC programs to all other TV across their self-selected metrics.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ABC-TV Introduces New Advertising Value Index. Plus Our Annual Upfront Economic Forecast. JackMyers Think Tank] Reference

Now, I am the first to note that maybe I just have a very refined self-selected group that I encounter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Ellerby: The Hidden Truth About American Beliefs: What Will The Spirituality Survey Reveal?] Reference

This was a bipartisan group, a self-selected group, and we brought in Ilya Prigogine, a Belgian Chemist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jose Antonio Vargas: TRANSCRIPT: Q&A with Al Gore] Reference

First let me say that self-selected Bankster subscribers are generally a bunch of, well, angry Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Bottari: President Obama, Give Liz a Job] Reference

Are these people sort of a self-selected group who are already focused on their health, things like that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2003] Reference

That was a good thing, it was a very self-selected group of idiots who don't realize how un-Obama that is.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2009] Reference

It's a self-selected collection of vibrant and generous personalities thinking and playing together daily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Morris: Twisdom: Twitter Wisdom] Reference

Ghalib wrote in both Persian and Urdu but is famous for his self-selected collection of 2,000 Urdu couplets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are we in Debt to Ghalib?] Reference

The continued political/demographic sorting of society into self-selected "red" and "blue" socioeconomic groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [John McQuaid: The Liberal Bias Newspaper Snipe Hunt] Reference

Second of all, this was one of those internet polls with self-selected political junkies who signed up to be polled.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews.Com/ Zogby People's Poll; 100% of Blacks Oppose Alito and Think Iraq War Unjustified] Reference

As such, Morgan's email served only to jam their phone lines with a self-selected conservative activist constituency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Stark: Surreal KSFO "Special Broadcast" Defies Description] Reference

Comment submissions are bias enough as it is, as those that comment are already a self-selected subset of those with an agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venture Capitalists Fight Back Against TheFunded] Reference

And it used to be the exclusive province of a rather small, self-selected society of those sharks, and their reporting remoras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Collis: Inside Baseball] Reference

These folks have signed up for the convention, they are self-selected members of the party that published this platform in 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas GOP Disavows Knowledge Of Racist Anti-Obama Button] Reference

Thousands of self-selected users submit notable examples of creativity, inspiration and design that are added daily to NOTCOT. org.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kristin Gorski: Obama Website Design Inspires Young Artists Support and Votes] Reference

They are self-selected samples and therefore reflect only the views of the limited number of people who take the time to respond to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commenting on Tancredo's Blog] Reference

Complete Campaigns had three times as many self-selected “user survey” respondents as Aristotle or other competing software companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [On PdF's Consumer Guide: Aristotle Complains; We Respond] Reference

The use of only listed telephone numbers, and the self-selected samples of voters in his online surveys, are the two most salient problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: McCain Takes National Lead; Even Besting Obama On The Economy] Reference

SF Net's tiers of communication are typical: open forums that anyone can join, private groups for self-selected users and one-to-one E-mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live Wires] Reference