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Carnegie Mellon University · Economics

2.6% of Carnegie Mellon University's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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Carnegie Mellon University: 2.6% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%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 subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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.

Furthest-left subjects

73-336 · International Energy Market and Sustainable Development60

Economics

This course teaches you about economics of the energy industry by looking at various energy markets. The global energy industry is now more than ever is pressured to be transformed by geopolitical tensions, concerns about climate change,…

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73-353 · Financial Regulation in the Digital Age60

Economics

The financial crisis and the digitalization of the financial markets have focused attention on the role of regulation for our financial system and the broader economy in recent years. Among the settings that are especially important in the…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Carnegie Mellon University Economics has 2 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Carnegie Mellon University · Economicsbias_left_share2.6—39—
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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