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Wesleyan University · Economics

2.2% of Wesleyan University's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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Wesleyan University: 2.2% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Economics 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

2 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

ECON 223 · Finance, Regulation, and the Economy60

Economics

With recent financial scandals and crises, it is important to ask whether the finance industry should be regulated and should undergo further policy reforms. Many scholars and policy experts contend that the current system is simply not…

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ECON 314 · Comparative Economics of Child and Family Policy in Postindustrial Countries60

Economics

This course uses tools of economic analysis and measures of child well-being to make cross-country comparisons of policies and outcomes. Children rank high on the list of a country's most valuable resources. Yet equally rich nations differ…

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Furthest right

None. Wesleyan University 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Wesleyan University · Economics	bias_left_share	2.2	—	89	—
Economics	bias_left_share	1.5	1.3 – 1.8	8,432	—

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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