Editing Selection bias (section)

==Related issues==
Selection bias is closely related to:
* [[publication bias]] or [[reporting bias]], the distortion produced in community perception or [[meta-analysis|meta-analyses]] by not publishing uninteresting (usually negative) results, or results which go against the experimenter's prejudices, a sponsor's interests, or community expectations.
* [[confirmation bias]], the general tendency of humans to give more attention to whatever confirms our pre-existing perspective; or specifically in experimental science, the distortion produced by experiments that are designed to seek confirmatory evidence instead of trying to disprove the hypothesis.
* exclusion bias, results from applying different criteria to cases and controls in regards to participation eligibility for a study/different variables serving as basis for exclusion.