History
History of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet developments in Russia and other successor states; governing structures and ideology and the relationship between state and society.
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Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University's course descriptions average 60.3 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Brigham Young University reads 7.2 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
8%Far left92–100
8%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
17%Center-right26–41
17%Right9–25
13%Far right0–8
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
Reading and discussion on the history of the struggle for human rights in South Africa, particularly during the time of apartheid (1948-1990).
History
The French Revolution and its global impact. Readings include primary and secondary sources on revolutionary politics, society, and culture in France, its overseas empire, and beyond.
Furthest-right subjects
History
Political, cultural, and social bases of fascist movements, especially in Italy, Germany, and Spain. Rise to power, family policies, warfare, propaganda, racism, genocide, neofascisms.
History
Attempted genocide of European Jews by Hitler's Third Reich; motives, methods, and implications.
History
Explores the formation of African regional political traditions, the rise of fabled kingdoms, and the horrors of expanding slaving frontiers.
Why this number, in plain words
Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.
50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.
Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 58.0 to 62.7; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- Only 3 of Brigham Young University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
- Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Brigham Young University by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 6.7% | 15 | view |
| Sociology | 1.6% | 61 | view |
| Political Science | 1.1% | 93 | view |
| Anthropology | 0% | 69 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0% | 54 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 33 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0% | 86 | view |
| History | 0% | 142 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 27 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 72 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 72 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigham Young University | mean_bias_score | 60.3 | 58.0 – 62.7 | 724 | 3 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |
- Formula
- SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
- Interval
- normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.
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