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Grinnell College · Anthropology

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

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
70%Left75–91
30%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
10 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

ANT 395 · SP25 Viral News: Anthropological Investigations of Crisis and the Values of Information Media83

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 Media83

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 268 · Language, Gender and Sexuality80

Anthropology

4 credits This course provides an overview of the major themes and issues related to language and gender, and sexuality research from anthropological and discursive perspectives. In particular, the class focuses on relationships between…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Grinnell College Anthropology has 10 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
Grinnell College · Anthropologybias_left_share17.8—45—
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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