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Grinnell College · Political Science

7.4% of Grinnell 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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Grinnell College: 7.4% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

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

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

POL 395 · 01 - Advanced Special Topic: Marginalized Identities in the United States75

Political Science

4 credits (Spring) In this course, students will engage with a diverse literature on the experiences of those in various marginalized communities in the United States, including civil rights violations, systemic oppression, the complexities…

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POL 295 · 01 - Special Topic: Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States70

Political Science

4 credits (Fall) In this course, we consider the extent to which American political institutions perpetuate racial inequality through unequal representation, disparate civil rights protections, and unequal access to resources. We will also…

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Furthest right

None. Grinnell College Political Science has 2 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
Grinnell College · Political Sciencebias_left_share7.4—27—
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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