An Inconvenient Truth: The Unconsidered Benefits of Convenience Polyandry

The prominence of media events in 2006, including the release of former US Vice President Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, the publication of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, even the death of ‘eco-celebrity’ Steve Irwin, suggested a need to devote an issue of Media International Australia to media and the environment. The study of environmentalism through the lens of media, journalism and communication is all but absent in Australia, with some notable exceptions. This issue of MIA goes some way towards redressing the absences identified by Tom Jagtenberg and David McKie in their influential book Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity, published more than 10 years ago, which claimed for the environment an equal status with traditional research foci: class, race and gender. The current public interest in environmental issues emphasises this point, although it is not unprecedented. History shows that environmental issues move in waves to and from the heart of public debate. As well as showcasing some of the field's distinct approaches and traditions, the articles in this issue contribute to a better understanding of this current wave and its likely aftermath. In doing so, it goes some way towards moving the environment in the direction of a more central position on the research and public agenda.

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Confronting an inconvenient truth

Organizational Dynamics ◽

10.1016/j.orgdyn.2018.07.001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 100668 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kevin S. Groves

Keyword(s):

An Inconvenient Truth

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An Inconvenient Truth: Some Neglected Issues in Invertebrate Learning

Perspectives on Behavior Science ◽

10.1007/s40614-018-00178-8 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 395-416 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Charles I. Abramson ◽

Harrington Wells

Keyword(s):

An Inconvenient Truth ◽

Invertebrate Learning

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Akbar, My Heart: Caregiving for a Dog During Covid-19

Animal Studies Journal ◽

10.14453/asj.v10i1.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 11-29

Author(s):

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

Keyword(s):

Neurological Disease ◽

Animal Studies ◽

White Supremacy ◽

Homo Sapiens ◽

The Other ◽

Fatal Disease ◽

Critical Animal Studies ◽

An Inconvenient Truth ◽

Relational Frame ◽

Point Of Departure

Covid-19 originates with humans’ instrumentalization of other animals, an “inconvenient truth” elided by scientists procuring a vaccine while refusing to contend with the captivity, slaughter and encroachment on wild animals’ habitats that brought the fatal disease upon us. The interlocking of homo sapiens’ and other species’ suffering is, of course, glaringly evidenced by disproportionate Black and brown death due to Covid-19 worldwide, itself intensifying the foundational pandemic of anti-Black violence. “Akbar, My Heart” contemplates transpecies loss in a relational frame, attending to the entanglement of white supremacy with anthropocentrism at the same time that I reflect on caregiving for my canine companion, Akbar, during his decline from neurological disease. My elderly friend’s worsening symptoms coincided with the pandemic’s spread, the Summer’s uproar against anti-Black violence and California’s wildfires. The vortex of these events is a point of departure for meditating about carceral logic, animalization and the seeming “end of days” together with another kind of ending, one centered on providing comfort and an honorable death. Mourning for Akbar through the preparation of this piece, I have called upon the wisdom of critical animal studies scholars as well as Sufi poets and even the texts of my dreams. Deciphering this bewildering time of transformation has been an invitation to imagine another world while abiding with Akbar in the threshold, attempting to see through the smoke, so to speak, to the other side of this scorched earth.

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An Inconvenient Truth: Arbitrary Distinctions Between Organizational, Mechanical Turk, and Other Convenience Samples

Industrial and Organizational Psychology ◽

10.1017/iop.2015.13 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 142-164 ◽

Cited By ~ 261

Author(s):

Richard N. Landers ◽

Tara S. Behrend

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Research Question ◽

Sampling Strategy ◽

Careful Consideration ◽

Omitted Variables ◽

Range Restriction ◽

Convenience Sample ◽

Journal Editors ◽

An Inconvenient Truth ◽

Methods Textbooks

Sampling strategy has critical implications for the validity of a researcher's conclusions. Despite this, sampling is frequently neglected in research methods textbooks, during the research design process, and in the reporting of our journals. The lack of guidance on this issue often leads reviewers and journal editors to rely on simple rules of thumb, myth, and tradition for judgments about sampling, which promotes the unnecessary and counterproductive characterization of sampling strategies as universally “good” or “bad.” Such oversimplification, especially by journal editors and reviewers, slows the progress of the social sciences by considering legitimate data sources to be categorically unacceptable. Instead, we argue that sampling is better understood in methodological terms of range restriction and omitted variables bias. This considered approach has far-reaching implications because in industrial–organizational (I-O) psychology, as in most social sciences, virtually all of the samples are convenience samples. Organizational samples are not gold standard research sources; instead, they are merely a specific type of convenience sample with their own positive and negative implications for validity. This fact does not condemn the science of I-O psychology but does highlight the need for more careful consideration of how and when a finding may generalize based on the particular mix of validity-related affordances provided by each sample source that might be used to investigate a particular research question. We call for researchers to explore such considerations cautiously and explicitly both in the publication and in the review of research.

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