History
Reaction and reform from 1861 to 1905; failure of parliamentary democracy amid war and revolution; Leninism and Stalinism; relaxation of totalitarian rule since Stalin’s death.
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Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University's course descriptions average 62.8 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Louisiana State University reads 4.8 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
3%Far left92–100
28%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
18%Center42–58
10%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
5%Far right0–8
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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
English & Comparative Literature
May be taken for a max. of 12 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary, with permission of instructor. Specialized explorations in critical theory and cultural studies.
History
Events leading up to and including World War I, problems of the inter-war period, World War II and rise and decline of Communism in Southeastern Europe.
Furthest-right subjects
History
Examination of democratization, economic transformation, party development, the reform movement, slavery and the sectional crisis.
History
Global crisis of the 1930s; Axis and Allied strategies; major military campaigns; great power diplomacy; life on the home-fronts; the Holocaust; espionage and resistance; the experience of combat; social, political and scientific consequences.
History
From 1600 to the present; emphasis on historical and cultural roots of Japan’s modernization in the late 19th century and quest for empire in the 20th century; cultural and intellectual developments in modern Japan.
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 56.6 to 68.9; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- Only 4 of Louisiana State University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
- 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.
Louisiana State University by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 9.1% | 11 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 6.3% | 16 | view |
| Economics | 1.2% | 86 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0.6% | 178 | view |
| Anthropology | 0% | 50 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0% | 155 | view |
| History | 0% | 97 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 53 | view |
| Political Science | 0% | 74 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 72 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 41 | view |
| Sociology | 0% | 55 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana State University | mean_bias_score | 62.8 | 56.6 – 68.9 | 888 | 4 |
| 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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