Course Schedule

Veranstaltungen von Dr. Jan-Bennet Voltmer


Lehrveranstaltungen

An Adventure in Statistics and Gender Differences in Mental Labor (FSL) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Jan-Bennet Voltmer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 9.102 Seminarraum

Inhalt: "Where would the hipsters of psychology, medicine, business studies and biology be without statistics? They’d be setting fire to their own pants at a party: happier, perhaps, but directionless and in danger of getting burned. So don’t run away or fear statistics. Strike up a conversation with it, be patient and kind and see what happens.” (Field, 2016) Working with data, is one of the core skills of scientists (and future scientists). In the seminar, students will (re-)gain a deep understanding of statistics, covering topics from measures of central tendency to multiple linear regression with interaction effects. To this end, students will perform two tasks in the seminar: (1) Students will present a chapter from the seminal statistics book "An Adventure in Statistics. The Reality Enigma" (Field, 2016) “At a simple level ‘an adventure in statistics’ is a story about Zach searching for [his vanished girlfriend] Alice, and seeking the truth, but it’s also about the unlikely friendship he develops with a sarcastic cat, it’s about him facing his fear of science and numbers, it’s about him learning to believe in himself. It’s a story about love, about not forgetting who you are. It’s about searching for the heartbeats that hide in the gaps between you and the people you love. It’s about having faith in others.” (Field, 2016) (2) Students will combine the presentation of the book chapter with an application of the statistical methods to data on gender differences in unpaid domestic work. Research on the gendered division of unpaid domestic labor has largely focused on its physical dimension (i.e., actually doing housework or caring for children), while the cognitive dimension known as "mental labor" (i.e., thinking, planning, organizing, etc.) is only beginning to receive both public and scholarly attention (Reich-Stiebert et al., 2022). Mental labor is defined by five characteristics: it is cognitive, it has a managerial component, it is communal, it is anticipatory, and it is usually invisible to both the person doing it and the person benefiting from it, and it may well be that Alice simply left Zach because he saw her as the house manager and himself as her subordinate, helping, yes, but not taking responsibility. Students will be assisted in performing their computations in either R or Python using R Notebooks or Jupyter Notebooks.

Gender Differences in Mental Labor: A Quantitative Research Project (Projekt)

Dozent/in: Jan-Bennet Voltmer

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 18:15 - 19:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 12.101 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Research on the gendered division of unpaid domestic labor has largely focused on its physical dimension (i.e., actually doing the housework or caring for the children), while the cognitive dimension, known as "mental labor" (i.e., thinking, planning, organizing, etc.), is only beginning to receive both public and scholarly attention (Reich-Stiebert et al., 2022). Mental labor is defined by five characteristics: it is cognitive, it has a managerial component, it is communal, it is anticipatory, and it is usually invisible to both the person doing it and the person who benefits from it. Research shows that a possible gendered division of mental labor cannot be attributed to different abilities in prospective memory (Niedźwieńska & Zielińska, 2021). In the seminar, students will conduct an empirical study building on Niedźwieńska & Zielińska (2021), potentially replicating and extending the findings in a German sample.