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Carnegie Mellon University · History

25.2% of Carnegie Mellon University's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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Carnegie Mellon University: 25.2% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
7%Left75–91
80%Center-left59–74
10%Center42–58
2%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
41 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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

Furthest left

79-373 · Culture and Revolution: The Socialist Experiment in Soviet Russia82

History

In 1917, revolutionaries took power in Russia to create the world's first socialist society. In a series of radical and unprecedented experiments, they attempted to remake every phase of social and cultural life, from sexual relations to…

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79-210 · Identity, Ethnicity, and Place in Modern China79

History

Within popular imagination, China is often considered to be the world's oldest nation. As a result, concepts such as "China" and "Chinese" have become so embedded in our consciousness that we often fail to consider how, like all identities,…

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79-238 · Modern African American Film: History and Resistance75

History

This course explores the historical and contemporary impact of resistance on and in African American film during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will consider how filmmakers use narrative and aesthetics to represent, address,…

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Furthest right

79-454 · The TransOceanic Railway36

History

This course is an introduction to railway restructuring and privatization, which arguably began in exactly 1990 with the privatization of Argentina's railways. The Argentine model has been replicated on other continents and in many settings…

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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
Carnegie Mellon University · Historybias_left_share25.2—159—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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