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Yale University's course descriptions average 68.5 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Yale University reads 1.0 points further left.

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Yale University: 68.5 (likely range 67.1 to 69.9) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

3%Far left92–100

21%Left75–91

71%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

ER&M 725 · Decolonizing Europe100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Decolonial theory imagines a world different from the one created by the dominance of Western modernity. However, it is not necessarily obvious what Europe can contribute to this process, as the decentering of Europe and its intellectual…

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SOCY 340 · Carcerality and the Environment100

Sociology

Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing social problems of the 21st century and it has become well understood that prisons perpetuate injustices for those that are detained within them and for those who live in the communities that…

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PSYC 342 · Psychology of Gender97

Psychology

This course explores the historical relationship between the "mind sciences" and dominant gender notions, ideologies, and norms. Students will critically examine the historical role that psychology and related fields have played in…

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Furthest right

None. Yale University has 174 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 67.1 to 69.9; 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.

Yale University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Ethnic & African American Studies	38.9%	113	view
Women's & Gender Studies	35.7%	28	view
Anthropology	20%	105	view
History	18.8%	197	view
Sociology	17.8%	45	view
Religious Studies	10.3%	39	view
English & Comparative Literature	9.7%	267	view
Art & Art History	7.1%	182	view
Psychology	4.8%	104	view
Philosophy	2.9%	70	view
Political Science	2.2%	134	view
Economics	0.7%	137	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
Yale University	mean_bias_score	68.5	67.1 – 69.9	1,421	175
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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