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Hamilton College's course descriptions average 66.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Hamilton College reads 0.7 points further right.

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Hamilton College: 66.9 (likely range 65.5 to 68.2) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

2%Far left92–100

17%Left75–91

75%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

116 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

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

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WMGST 410 · Transnational Feminist Praxis96

Women's & Gender Studies

Seminar exploring contemporary and historical struggles for gender justice as intersecting with global forces of colonialism, imperialism, neoliberal capitalism, carcerality and militarism. We will examine how (1) economies, states and…

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SOC 382 · Prison Nation: Gender, Race, and Abolition Politics94

Sociology

In this course, students will read sociological texts that examine how race and gender affect people's experiences with state-based violence and social control. This course examines the racist and sexist externally imposed state policies…

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SOC 231 · Racism and Race in the United States85

Sociology

This course examines the relationship between racism, racial discrimination, and racial inequality in the US. It investigates how institutions, culture, and social interactions are deeply informed by race and reproduce the structures of…

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None. Hamilton College has 116 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 65.5 to 68.2; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Hamilton College by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	66.7%	27	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	40.4%	52	view
Sociology	38.9%	54	view
English & Comparative Literature	16.0%	94	view
Religious Studies	14.3%	28	view
Philosophy	12.5%	56	view
History	11.4%	105	view
Art & Art History	9.5%	84	view
Political Science	5.5%	109	view
Psychology	4.9%	41	view
Economics	3.5%	57	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Hamilton College	mean_bias_score	66.9	65.5 – 68.2	707	116
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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