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17.8% of Grinnell College's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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0%45%

Grinnell College: 17.8% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

38%Left75–91

63%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 framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

ANT 395 · SP25 Viral News: Anthropological Investigations of Crisis and the Values of Information Media78

Anthropology

4 credits Spring Cross-listed as: ANT Through news portals, podcasts, and ethnographies of journalism, students will track and interrogate news that covers the social fallout from recent crises, including war, climate emergency, and the…

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ANT 395 · 01 - Advanced Special Topic: Viral News: Anthropological Investigations of Crisis and the Values of Information Media78

Anthropology

4 credits (Spring) Through news portals, podcasts, and ethnographies of journalism, students will track and interrogate news that covers the social fallout from recent crises, including war, climate emergency, and the pandemic.…

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ANT 388 · Landscapes of Social Inequality75

Anthropology

4 credits (Fall or Spring) Social inequality is often written on the landscape as evidenced today by neighborhoods that are spatially segregated by race and class. How did dominant groups in the past use the landscape or built environment…

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Furthest right

None. Grinnell College Anthropology has 8 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Grinnell College · Anthropology	bias_left_share	17.8	—	45	—
Anthropology	bias_left_share	10.4	9.8 – 11.1	9,234	—

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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