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Pepperdine University · Psychology

3.2% of Pepperdine University's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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Pepperdine University: 3.2% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

0%Center-left59–74

100%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

1 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

PSYC 458 · Family in a Changing World58

Psychology

This is a cross-disciplinary course that examines the family as a universally important social institution: both its history and current state. This examination will lead to two conclusions: First, the family of bygone eras has, at times,…

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Furthest right

None. Pepperdine University Psychology has 1 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
Pepperdine University · Psychology	bias_left_share	3.2	—	31	—
Psychology	bias_left_share	2.5	2.2 – 2.8	9,330	—

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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