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New York University · Political Science

2.8% of New York University'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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New York University: 2.8% 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
67%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
33%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
3 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

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

Furthest left

POL-UA 335 · Law and Society65

Political Science

Critically examines the relationship between law and political and social movements such as the civil rights movement, the women?s movement, and the labor and environmental movements. Emphasis on law as a political process and legal…

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POL-UA 336 · Gender in Law64

Political Science

Examines the relationship between gender politics, legal theory, and social policy. Studies the role that the legal arena and certain historical conditions have played in creating, revising, and protecting particular gender identities and…

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Furthest right

POL-UA 9598 · European-American in The 21St Century40

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…

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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
New York University · Political Sciencebias_left_share2.8—72—
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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