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Stony Brook University's course descriptions average 64.4 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Stony Brook University reads 3.1 points further right.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

Stony Brook University: 64.4 (likely range 62.7 to 66.1) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

6%Left75–91

80%Center-left59–74

14%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

35 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

AFS 373 · Sexualities: African and75

Ethnic & African American Studies

Caribbean Perspectives Designed to introduce students to the complexities of human sexuality from a perspective that places subaltern individuals at the center of the analysis. It locates these individuals, and their sexual practices, in…

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HIS 314 · Indigenous-Settler Relations75

History

in the United States Surveys the relations between the first peoples to inhabit the territory that becomes the United States--Indigenous Peoples--and European and Euro-American colonizers and investigates instances of violence, removal, and…

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AFH 282 · Contemporary Caribbean72

Ethnic & African American Studies

Women's Literature Examines the political, social, and historical experiences of women from anglophone francophone, and hispanophone Caribbean nations. The readings, movies, and projects selected for the course highlight reccurent themes in…

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Furthest right

None. Stony Brook University has 35 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 62.7 to 66.1; 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.

Stony Brook University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	14.3%	35	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	9.8%	143	view
History	8.6%	116	view
Anthropology	2%	50	view
Political Science	1.8%	57	view
English & Comparative Literature	1.5%	131	view
Philosophy	1.4%	74	view
Art & Art History	1.0%	105	view
Economics	0%	32	view
Psychology	0%	47	view
Religious Studies	0%	9	view
Sociology	0%	46	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
Stony Brook University	mean_bias_score	64.4	62.7 – 66.1	845	35
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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