Sociology
This is a course on contemporary Marxist social science. It presents Marxist theory as a research program, focusing on its core themes and internal logic. We will examine how the class structure of capitalist societies generates a…
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New York University
New York University's course descriptions average 65.1 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so New York University reads 2.5 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
0%Far left92–100
7%Left75–91
86%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
2%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest left
Anthropology
This course examines the social and cultural forces that shape the construction of sex, gender, and sexuality. It takes these categories as nonbinary and fluid. Using an intersectional approach, it considers how various subject positions…
Ethnic & African American Studies
This course is an investigation of speculative film and fiction as a form of social critique and reparative justice. Speculative film and fiction are not restricted to science fiction, but rather “speculative” refers to all of those forms…
Furthest right
Political Science
This course explores the history and the current state of political, economic and cultural relations between the United States and Europe. Ever since the end of the World War II, the cooperative relationship between these two parts of the…
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 63.0 to 67.2; 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.
New York University by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 41.7% | 12 | view |
| Anthropology | 16.2% | 99 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 13.7% | 51 | view |
| Religious Studies | 8.8% | 34 | view |
| Sociology | 4.5% | 67 | view |
| Political Science | 2.8% | 72 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 2.7% | 74 | view |
| Economics | 2.4% | 41 | view |
| History | 2.3% | 130 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0% | 69 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 48 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 37 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | mean_bias_score | 65.1 | 63.0 – 67.2 | 734 | 43 |
| 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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