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Colgate University · Anthropology

21.2% of Colgate University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Colgate University: 21.2% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 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

ANTH 228 · Women and Gender in Prehistory78

Anthropology

Takes a feminist perspective to the study of gender and identity in prehistoric societies and ancient civilizations. By looking at the variation of gender roles and relations throughout history and cross-culturally, students help to…

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ANTH 216 · Men, Masculinities, and Power77

Anthropology

Explores discourses and practices of diverse masculinities across cultures, with particular attention to relationships between gender and power. Students engage with anthropological works that critically examine how myth and ideology are…

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ANTH 315 · Gender and Culture74

Anthropology

Focuses on gender as a culturally constructed, historically variable, and politically contested category rather than an immutable biological "given." Students have two major objectives: first, to develop a cross-cultural understanding of…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Colgate University Anthropology has 8 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
Colgate University · Anthropologybias_left_share21.2—33—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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