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University of Washington · Psychology

1.6% of University of Washington's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.

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University of Washington: 1.6% Psychology at all 100 schools: 2.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Psychology 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
3 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

PSYCH 554 · Racism in Neuroscience73

Psychology

Explores how power, colonization, and racism influence our conceptualization of neuroscience as an enterprise of knowledge production. Investigates topics such as eugenics, medical racism, contemporary diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)…

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PSYCH 439 · Psychology of Health Disparities63

Psychology

SSc, DIV In the United States, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other identities and experiences affect risk for a range of health outcomes. Reviews psychological research on the sources of these disparities and potential…

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PSYCH 250 · Racism: Causes and Consequences60

Psychology

SSc, DIV Explores racial prejudice from a psychological perspective. Focuses on critical examination of the influence of identity on people's lived experience; psychological theory and research on what processes may underlie and motivate…

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Furthest right

None. University of Washington Psychology has 3 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 Washington · Psychologybias_left_share1.6—187—
Psychologybias_left_share2.52.2 – 2.89,330—
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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