"selectivity" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it in situations when you are referring to the act of making a careful choice based on a set of criteria or standards. For example: "We appreciated the selectivity shown by the committee in choosing the most qualified applicant."
They therefore refute any version of the late-selection theory according to which the selectivity of attention is entirely a 'late process', occuring after initial perceptual encoding is complete.
Since well organized competitions can always select one winner, however good and however numerous the competitors, the selectivity of a competitive mechanism need not have anything to do with bottlenecks, or with any other limitations of processing capacity.
"But we do our homework and have a strict selectivity criteria.
Robbie Keane would not be many people's idea of a messiah, but to Celtic supporters buffeted by disappointment throughout a trying season selectivity is an unaffordable luxury.
Unlike the firm's passenger cars, niche vehicles such as these are doing fairly well.Arguably, Mr Kim should learn from the selectivity of the potential buyers.
That has boosted the cachet of what used to be "safety schools" for Ivy-league rejects and the selectivity of universities even lower down the pecking-order which, after all, educate most American undergraduates.Rarer in lower tiers, though, are good financial-aid pecking-order which
Their exam results far outstrip those of state schools (though there is a debate over how much this is because of the selectivity of their intake).
That could end up costing them anywhere up to $70 billion.Mr Buffett makes no apology for his selectivity: the monolines' structured-finance business is almost certainly beyond saving, he thinks.
For one thing, the emphasis is on selectivity.
This selectivity, say BDS critics, smacks of anti-Semitism.Both sides are clinging to specious arguments.
It is this selectivity that gives these journals their prestige.
