Anthropology
This course brings together writings on slavery, colonialism, and genocide to explore the epistemological, necropenological, and politico-economic conditions mobilized to render a condition of 'non-humanity' of those 'otherized' by…
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Princeton University
Princeton University's course descriptions average 68.3 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Princeton University reads 0.7 points further left.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
2%Far left92–100
22%Left75–91
69%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Furthest left
English & Comparative Literature
This course focuses on how the renewed analysis of a relationality among different violences generated by popular feminisms impact our understanding of justice and accountability. Taking the crossings between social reproduction and prison…
English & Comparative Literature
"What shall we say of the Marxian philosophy and of its relation to the American Negro?," Du Bois once asked. His answer was that "it must be modified," not because Marx was wrong but because <i>Capital</i> is one of the four "books in the…
Furthest right
None. Princeton University has 115 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.
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 66.8 to 69.8; 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.
Princeton University by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 42.4% | 33 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 40% | 50 | view |
| Anthropology | 35.1% | 57 | view |
| Sociology | 25% | 44 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 10.6% | 161 | view |
| History | 9.9% | 121 | view |
| Art & Art History | 7.8% | 115 | view |
| Religious Studies | 6.7% | 60 | view |
| Political Science | 4.2% | 95 | view |
| Philosophy | 2.9% | 34 | view |
| Economics | 2.4% | 83 | view |
| Psychology | 2.1% | 47 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Princeton University | mean_bias_score | 68.3 | 66.8 – 69.8 | 900 | 116 |
| 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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