self-selection

Selecting oneself for something.

Noun

  1. Selecting oneself for something.
  2. Selecting something for oneself.
    • “I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. - 2022 July 26, Mike Isaac, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “‘Operating With Increased Intensity’:...
  3. An item selected by oneself.
  4. A form of nonprobability sampling bias in which individuals select themselves into a group.

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English selection English self-selection From self- + selection.

Forms

self-selections

Related

adverse selection