About Stats Ninja
The Face Behind Stats Ninja
Wiebke Plueckhahn
Data Scientist and Psychologist, M.Sc.
About me
In addition to data analysis and statistical consulting, I am in the third year of my doctorate in the field of work, organizational and business psychology.
What else is important: First things first - I love good coffee! In my free time I program, do a lot of sports and enjoy being out in nature. I prefer to be out on the water with a kite and kiteboard.
The Stats Ninja Story
During my bachelor's degree in psychology, I realized that I particularly liked numbers: while everyone else complained about the statistics exams, for me they were the easiest of the entire course. At the latest during my bachelor's thesis, when I was eagerly calculating on the sofa in SPSS on a Saturday evening, it became clear to me:
I would like to evaluate data later!
The Stats Ninja project began 2019 - parallel to my master's degree in psychology and bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science, I gave tutoring in statistics. During this time I discovered that tutoring is fun, but I could help some people much better if I simply took over the data analysis myself.
So the focus of my service shifted and since 2021 I have evaluated many different theses from a wide variety of disciplines.
In my own research during my doctorate, I specialized in complex statistical modeling methods (e.g. continuous time modeling, meta-analyses and multilevel analyses). At the same time I I worked as a research assistant in research and teaching for 3 years, and in this role I also supervised a large number of bachelor's and master's theses.
My takeaway:
There are no stupid questions and there is a solution for all statistical problems!
Scientific publications
Publications
Dettmers, J., & Plückhahn, W. (2022). Suddenly working from home! Effects of the Corona crisis on psychological job demands and resources and the role of telecommuting. Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 66(3), 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1026/0932-4089/a000374
Conference papers
Plückhahn, W., & Dettmers, J. (2022, July 06-08). Effects of the corona crisis on job characteristics, especially in pandemic induced telework [Poster presentation]. 15th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference, Bordeaux, France.
Plückhahn, W., Rigotti, T., & Haun, V.C. (2023, May 24-27). Challenging Unidirectionality. A Continuous Time Meta-Analysis of Short-Term Reciprocal Effects of Relational Resources and Negative Affect. 21st European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress, Katowice, Poland.
Mülder, L. M., Plückhahn, W., Arnold, M., & Rigotti, T. (2023, May 24-27). Cognitive processes before showing job crafting behavior – Introduction of the concept job crafting preparation and time-continuous relationships to job crafting. 21st European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress, Katowice, Poland.
Mülder, L. M., Plückhahn, W., Arnold, M., & Rigotti, T. (2023, April 19-22). Introducing Job Crafting Preparation [Poster presentation]. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, Boston, United States.