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1.5% of Massachusetts Institute of Technology'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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1.5% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

100%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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Framing Subject

Furthest left

· Martin Luther King, Jr. Design Seminar64

Political Science

Not oered regularly; consult department Facilitates design and construction of installations and other community projects in conjunction with and beyond MIT's celebration of Dr. King. Students discuss the ideas and goals of Dr. King and…

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· Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution60

Political Science

Analyzes federal and state regulation of air and water pollution, hazardous waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and production/ use of toxic chemicals. Analyzes pollution/climate change as economic problems and failure of markets. Explores the…

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Furthest right

None. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Political Science	bias_left_share	1.5	—	133	—
Political Science	bias_left_share	5.2	4.8 – 5.6	12,053	—

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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