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Texas Tech University's course descriptions average 60 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Texas Tech University reads 7.5 points further right.

Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Texas Tech University: 60 All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its 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
1 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

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PSY 5396 · Multicultural Counseling60

Psychology

Semester Credit Hours Prerequisite: PSY 5002 or PSY 5311 . Impact of privilege and culture (race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, etc.) on individual experience and implications for culturally competent practice.

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Furthest right

None. Texas Tech University has 1 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). No interval is published for this number.

  • Only 1 of Texas Tech University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
  • 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.
Texas Tech University by department (share of courses described from the left)
DepartmentLeft-framed shareCourses
Psychology1.1%90view
Anthropology0%59view
Art & Art History0%123view
Economics0%66view
English & Comparative Literature0%159view
Ethnic & African American Studies0%4view
History0%241view
Philosophy0%60view
Political Science0%66view
Sociology0%62view
Women's & Gender Studies0%28view

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Texas Tech Universitymean_bias_score60—9581
All 100 schoolsmean_bias_score67.567.4 – 67.7124,29010,124
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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