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University of California-Irvine
University of California-Irvine's course descriptions average 64.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of California-Irvine reads 2.6 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
0%Far left92–100
7%Left75–91
87%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest left
Anthropology
Competing ideas of masculinity and femininity, sexual violence, sexual identities, and gendered hierarchies informed how the Spanish engaged in military and religious domination of Mexican and Andean communities, as well as the forms of…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Examines the violent incorporation of Africa within European modernity. Places the discourse of Pan-Africanism, African Nationalisms, Negritude, African Marxism, and/or African Socialism in juxtaposition to the forces of capitalism,…
Furthest right
None. University of California-Irvine has 30 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 62.6 to 67.2; 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.
University of California-Irvine by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 14.3% | 49 | view |
| Sociology | 11.5% | 87 | view |
| Anthropology | 5.1% | 118 | view |
| Philosophy | 2.3% | 88 | view |
| Psychology | 1.3% | 233 | view |
| Political Science | 1.0% | 98 | view |
| History | 0.9% | 117 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0% | 163 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 155 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0% | 101 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 2 | view |
| Women's & Gender Studies | 0% | 2 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California-Irvine | mean_bias_score | 64.9 | 62.6 – 67.2 | 1,213 | 30 |
| 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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