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Ohio State University-Columbus · Economics

1.2% of Ohio State University-Columbus's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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Ohio State University-Columbus: 1.2% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics 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
5 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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.

Furthest-left subjects

Agricultural, Environmental, and Dev Economics 3142 · Agricultural Cooperatives72

Economics

Cooperatives are jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprises that present an alternative model for doing business compared to investor-owned structures. This course will explore the basic principles and operations of cooperatives…

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Economic Evaluation of the Pharmacy Enterprise 1420 · Philosophical Approaches to Racism and Sexism67

Economics

An introductory survey of philosophical ways of thinking about and remedying racism and sexism. GE foundation race, ethnicity and gender div course

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Economics 3820 · The Economics of Gender in Labor Markets67

Economics

Application of economic analysis to the evolution and economic condition of women and men in the labor force; occupational distribution and segregation; wage gap; the glass ceiling. Prereq: 2001.01, 2001.02 (200), or 2001.03H (200H), or…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Ohio State University-Columbus Economics has 5 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Ohio State University-Columbus · Economicsbias_left_share1.2—165—
Economicsbias_left_share1.51.3 – 1.88,432—
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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