As the audience, the effective way of this is to avoid and reject the information not consistent with their own opinions through selectiveacceptance, selective cognition and selective memory.
Acceptance rates at selective colleges have been declining for decades.
名牌大学的录取率在几十年间不断下降。
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In computer science, a competitive faculty candidate will have about 10 publications, and 3-5 of those will be at "selective" or "Tier 1" venues (crudely, less than 33% acceptance rate).