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Purdue University · Anthropology

2.6% of Purdue University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Purdue University: 2.6% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 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

ANTH 41700 · The State Of The World: Social Theory And Human Crisis In The Twenty-First Century83

Anthropology

00. In this course we will examine a series of urgent issues facing the global community through reading ethnography and studying social theory. For each issue, we will read recent ethnographic research that illuminates the issue as well as…

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ANTH L4010 · Language, Power, And Gender75

Anthropology

00. This course investigates sociocultural aspects of language use, focusing on the interaction of power and gender with language. Topics include differences in men's and women's language use, discourse patterns and power relationships, and…

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ANTH 37000 · Ethnicity And Culture72

Anthropology

00. Course examines ethnicity and nation as constructs that vary across cultures, history and space, and surveys theories of cultures, ethnicity and nationalism. Issues examined include cultural identities, power, domination and resistance,…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Purdue University Anthropology has 8 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
Purdue University · Anthropologybias_left_share2.6—153—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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