Jevin West¶

Jevin West is a computational social scientist at the University of Washington's Department of Economics and Center for Science and Imagination. His research and teaching focus on data literacy, misinformation, and the intersection of technology and society.

Sources in this wiki¶

Misinformation and Data Literacy — video talk on data literacy, chart manipulation, and education interventions

Key projects¶

Calling Bullshit: Co-taught with Carl Bergstrom, this popular course teaches critical reasoning about data and statistics. The course has been adopted by 70+ universities globally and adapted for K-12 curricula with support from state legislatures and foundations (Knight Foundation, etc.).

Curriculum development: Leading efforts to translate data-literacy and media-literacy content for Common Core Standards; creating both digital and physical curriculum materials for high school and middle school contexts.

Topics¶

Data literacy, Media literacy, Literacy interventions, Misinformation, Deepfakes, Science Misinformation

Notes¶

West is a leading voice in making data literacy and critical reasoning about quantitative claims a core educational competency. His emphasis on the parallel between humanistic textual criticism and data criticism—questioning how numbers are framed and presented, not just whether they are accurate—represents a significant pedagogical shift in how misinformation defenses are conceptualized.