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Davidson College · Political Science

4.6% of Davidson College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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Davidson College: 4.6% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

20%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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

Furthest left

POL 432 · Racial Justice in Education100

Political Science

Instructor Murray This course is composed of academic writing, research methods, readings, and discussion focused on racial inequality in education. We take a critical analytic approach to understand how schools and school systems oppress…

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POL 420 · Institutions and Inequality: a case study of Panama62

Political Science

Instructor B. Crandall Panama has been a stable democracy since 1990 and has in recent years been celebrated as an economic success story for its rapid rate of per capital GDP convergence with the United States. The country's canal along…

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POL 446 · Comparative Youth Politics62

Political Science

Instructor Rigger Around the world, young people are mobilizing to make their voices heard. From Hong Kong to North Africa, youth are protesting political and economic conditions; meanwhile their counterparts in Europe and North America are…

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Furthest right

None. Davidson College Political Science has 5 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Davidson College · Political Sciencebias_left_share4.6—109—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
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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