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Boston College · Economics

6.0% of Boston College's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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Boston College: 6.0% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
25%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

ECON 1704 · Real Estate and Urban Action: Transforming Communities and Increasing Access to Opportunity65

Economics

This is a Complex Problem course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take UNAS1725 with this course. This course explores concepts of social, economic, and racial inequality with a focus on the interaction between housing, labor markets,…

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ECON 1703 · The American Divide: The Economics of Inequality63

Economics

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both ECON1703 and PHIL1711. How should we interpret our nation's persistent inequalities when our founding documents assert the equality of all? Concern over…

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ECON 2289 · Which is Better? An Economic Comparison of Health Care in France, the U.K., and the U.S.63

Economics

This course is designed as an introduction to the health care systems of the U.S., the U.K., and France. In 2010, the WHO carried out the first ever analysis of the world's health systems and found that France provided the best overall…

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Furthest right

ADEC 7820 · Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship44

Economics

Innovation and entrepreneurship have been the key drivers behind economic growth across developed economies and even more so in the U.S. However, innovations and entrepreneurism develop under a high degree of risk and uncertainty and, in…

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Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Boston College · Economicsbias_left_share6.0—117—
Economicsbias_left_share1.51.3 – 1.88,432—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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