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Vassar College · Economics

0% of Vassar College's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

0%20%
Vassar College: 0% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
20%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Furthest-left subjects

ECON 206 · Gender Issues in Economics67

Economics

1 unit(s) (Same as WFQS 206 ) An analysis of gender in education, earnings, employment and the division of labor within the household. Topics include a study occupational segregation, discrimination, the role of "protective legislation" in…

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ECON 320 · Economics of Inequality and Discrimination63

Economics

Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) An investigation of the extent, causes, and consequences of inequality and discrimination in labor markets. Leading economic theories of inequality and discrimination are covered and related to theories of…

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ECON 267 · Environmental Economics60

Economics

Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as ENST 267 and STS 267 ) This course examines environmental and natural resource issues from an economic perspective. Particular attention is given to the evidence and analysis presented at the UN…

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Furthest-right subjects

ECON 388 · Latin American Economic Development22

Economics

1 unit(s) (Same as LALS 388 ) This course examines why many Latin American countries started with levels of development similar to those of the U.S. and Canada but were not able to keep up. The course begins with discussions of various ways…

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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
Vassar College · Economicsbias_left_share0—34—
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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