Economics
Instructor Cools This course examines the changing role of gender in the labor market and the household. Topics to be studied include: the rise in females' formal labor force participation during the second half of the twentieth century;…
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Davidson College · Economics
0% of Davidson College's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.
0%20%
Where Economics courses fall
0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
40%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%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.
Furthest-left subjects
Economics
Instructor Adnot (Cross-listed with EDU 286) This course will examine questions about the American educational system from an economic and behavioral-economic perspective. Is school funding better spent on merit pay for teachers or reducing…
Economics
Instructor Staff Economic perspective on differences in health outcomes and health care utilization across the categories of income, wealth, education, gender and race. Includes study of theories of time allocation, health production,…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Davidson College Economics has 3 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
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson College · Economics | bias_left_share | 0 | — | 43 | — |
| Economics | bias_left_share | 1.5 | 1.3 – 1.8 | 8,432 | — |
- 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.