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University of California-Riverside · Economics

1.7% of University of California-Riverside's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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University of California-Riverside: 1.7% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

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

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

ECON 006 · Introduction to Environmental Economics58

Economics

, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to the basic principles of economics and their application to problems of environmental quality and natural resource utilization. Emphasis is on the failure of markets as…

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ECON 132 · Public Economics58

Economics

, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 102 or ECON 104A. Considers the economics of current policy debates including healthcare, social security, tax policy, and private support for public schools. Focuses on government…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Riverside Economics has 2 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
University of California-Riverside · Economicsbias_left_share1.7—115—
Economicsbias_left_share1.51.3 – 1.88,432—
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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