"The 21st-century Masonic Renaissance starts today!" The "renaissance" is Mr. Sturgeon's agenda for reform, jump-starting a membership drive with a new strategy that permits "selective invitation," replacing the old "To be one, ask one" policy that forbade Masons to proselytize.
Most patients had little or no experience with computers, and the distribution of age and gender was typical for the general practice population, so we have no clear evidence for a selective invitation, e.g. of younger or more educated patients.
Knowing how I travel best, I'm selective about which trip invitations to accept and prefer solo missions.
As Philip Heymann, a former deputy attorney general, argued last year, a blanket secrecy law is an invitation to selective prosecution and retribution, even if is tempered with protections for leaks about waste, fraud and abuse.
By using a 'targeted' invitation strategy we aimed to minimize the risk of selection bias caused by selective participation of, for example, women experiencing fertility problems.
Invitations will not only be selective — from 250 to 2,000 — but take the form of questions.
In this way, bias due to selective participation is expected to be less compared to applying a broader invitation strategy, for example by using advertisements in daily newspapers to recruit controls.
