0 involving people or organizations that choose to take part in an activity, rather than being chosen by someone else:
The survey is self-selecting and does not include all trade associations - only those trade associations that have agreed to participate.
They are not a statistical sample, but a self-selecting section of the educated middle classes.
In particular, the spatial dependence that is created by self-selecting behaviour should be concentrated in one of two types of variables.
For all of these reasons, a pool of bad politicians may become a self-selecting elite.
The consultants, like the family doctors, could do nothing else but try to deal with the problems which this self-selecting population presented.
In practice, groups are self-selecting and individuals have a wide diversity of disabling conditions which are also causes of long-term social exclusion.
These individuals were self-elected, and the authors' analysis of musical identity formation would have been enriched had they explored the inevitable biases involved when working with self-selecting individuals.
One's contacts gradually but inevitably become more and more self-selecting and unrepresentative of the great public.
In a sense, we have a self-selecting congregation here tonight.
At best, that is often self-selecting and a one-way flow.
