At these events it is common for the audience, effectively a self-selecting group of admirers, to tell the author how much they like the book.
Any evidence for this, apart from a small number of anecdotes from a self-selecting group?
The 2 percent or so who do are a self-selecting group.
An alternate explanation might be that the self-selecting group that responded was more did so in part because they were aware of these issues.
To be sure, it's a self-selecting group that makes it for the long haul.
To some extent, it was a self-selecting group.
"It ends up being a self-selecting group," she said.
It's already a self-selecting group of people who were not so prurient to begin with.
Communities of amateurs still thrive, but they are self-selecting groups.
But the rigor of these self-selecting groups varies, and most of their work goes on behind closed doors.