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The New School · Anthropology

26.4% of The New School's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

0%45%
The New School: 26.4% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

3%Far left92–100
23%Left75–91
70%Center-left59–74
3%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
64 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

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

Furthest left

LANT 2225 · Activist Anthropology: Toward Antiracism, Decolonization, and Anti-Oppression100

Anthropology

How can we use anthropology, both its tools and theories, to actively work towards a better world? In this class, we will collectively address this question in order to construct a framework of anthropology that explicitly aims to bring…

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GANT 6156 · Migrations and Ethics of Care92

Anthropology

Throughout the world, migrants are engaging in political action and practices and relations of solidarity and care. These ‘affective solidarities’ are also infusing feminist theory with new forms of political praxis. What types of knowledge…

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GANT 6172 · The Commons - From Private Property to Feminist Other Ways91

Anthropology

We live in a world that is overwhelmingly structured by private property. Yet hiding in the interstices of this dominant political-economic and legal formation are a set of commons, forms of mutual responsibility or commoning that escape,…

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Furthest right

None. The New School Anthropology has 64 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
The New School · Anthropologybias_left_share26.4—242—
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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