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Boston University · History

7.7% of Boston University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Boston University: 7.7% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

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

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Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

CAS HI 500 · Topics in History79

History

May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Topic for Fall 2024: Before the Deluge: Weimar Germany, 1918-1933. Explores Weimar's fragility and resilience. Explores problems of political polarization, from authoritarian thought to…

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CAS HI 112 · Black Power in the Classroom: The History of Black Studies62

History

Centers Black experiences, cultures, knowledge production and identity formation in the United States and in the African Diaspora across time and space. Examines and traces the genealogies of Black Studies as a discipline: its political,…

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Furthest right

None. Boston University History has 2 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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 University · Historybias_left_share7.7—26—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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