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Yale University · Religious Studies

10.3% of Yale University's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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Yale University: 10.3% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

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

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Furthest left

RLST 628 · Religion and Family62

Religious Studies

Religion and family are also often depicted as separate forms of social organization. This comparative course explores the ways in which religious and familial concepts, institutions, and relationships intersect to shape the lived…

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RLST 209 · Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Southeast Asia61

Religious Studies

Religion, ethnicity, and nationalism are three of the most potent forces that have shaped contemporary Southeast Asia. This course is intended to provide context and a foundation for understanding the theory of nationalism and religious…

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RLST 698 · Variety and Standardization61

Religious Studies

Variety and standardization number among Western modernity’s favorite binaries, fully entangled with another sibling set of “dualities”: religion and secularization. In the United States, the process of “nationing” citizens (to use Tony…

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Furthest right

None. Yale University Religious Studies has 4 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
Yale University · Religious Studiesbias_left_share10.3—39—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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