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College of William and Mary

College of William and Mary's course descriptions average 68.4 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so College of William and Mary reads 0.8 points further left.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

College of William and Mary: 68.4 (likely range 65.8 to 70.9) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

24%Left75–91

73%Center-left59–74

3%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

37 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

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

Furthest left

ANTH 326 · Indigenous Voices in Conservation89

Anthropology

Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): BIOL 204 or CONS 201 or ENSP 101 College Curriculum: COLL 350 The field of conservation emerged along with settler-colonialism at the end of the 19th century, and it was linked to white settler strategies of…

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AFST 332 · Sex & Race in Plays & Films: Pedagogies Towards Freedom & Justice84

Ethnic & African American Studies

Credits: (4) College Curriculum: COLL 200, COLL 300, ARTS Domain (Anchored): ALV Domain (Reaching Out): CSI Study of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality in plays and films dramatizing diverse marginalized and minoritized…

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APIA 332 · Sex & Race in Plays & Films: Pedagogies Towards Freedom & Justice83

Ethnic & African American Studies

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Furthest right

None. College of William and Mary has 37 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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 65.8 to 70.9; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

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.

College of William and Mary by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Sociology	21.2%	52	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	16.4%	61	view
Anthropology	9.6%	73	view
Philosophy	5.9%	34	view
History	5.8%	104	view
Political Science	1.7%	59	view
Art & Art History	0%	49	view
Economics	0%	37	view
English & Comparative Literature	0%	38	view
Psychology	0%	56	view
Religious Studies	0%	20	view
Women's & Gender Studies	0%	5	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
College of William and Mary	mean_bias_score	68.4	65.8 – 70.9	588	37
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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