Political Science
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Brigham Young University · Political Science
1.1% of Brigham Young University's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
0%35%
Where Political Science courses fall
0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
33%Center-right26–41
33%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
Topics include Persian Gulf Wars, Arab-Israeli conflict, the effect of Arab nationalism and political Islam on international relations, and the intervention of great powers in the region.
Political Science
Politics and policy in Europe. State-building, party systems, nationalism, populism, political economy, demographics, migration and refugees, cooperation among advanced industrial countries in comparative and historical perspective. Various…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigham Young University · Political Science | bias_left_share | 1.1 | — | 93 | — |
| Political Science | bias_left_share | 5.2 | 4.8 – 5.6 | 12,053 | — |
- 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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