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Claremont McKenna College

Claremont McKenna College's course descriptions average 64.6 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Claremont McKenna College reads 2.9 points further right.

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Claremont McKenna College: 64.6 (likely range 62.6 to 66.7) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

15%Left75–91

76%Center-left59–74

9%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

33 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.

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AFRI 125 · Afro-Pessimism and the Politics of Hope78

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course will survey the deep and dark history of dreams, accomplishments and roadblocks that have constituted and continue to influence the ways Blacks in America negotiate a compromised political position. Traversing history from the…

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RLST 083 · Hip-Hop, Religion and Revolution78

Religious Studies

This class examines the revolutionary intersections of race, religion and Hip-Hop from 1960-Present. It explores how Black and racial-ethnic Hip-Hop, R&B, and other artists (Latino, Muslim, Jewish) have kept alive the civil rights and black…

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HIST 114 · Race and Racism in The Colonial Americas75

History

This course examines the development of ideas of race and racial difference in the Atlantic World from the 16 th to the 19 th centuries. Contact and interaction between indigenous Americans, Europeans, and Africans produced fabricated…

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Furthest right

None. Claremont McKenna College has 33 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 62.6 to 66.7; 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.

Claremont McKenna College by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Ethnic & African American Studies	40%	10	view
History	11.4%	105	view
Psychology	9.3%	43	view
Religious Studies	6.7%	60	view
Philosophy	3.7%	54	view
Political Science	3.5%	114	view
English & Comparative Literature	3.3%	91	view
Economics	0%	65	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
Claremont McKenna College	mean_bias_score	64.6	62.6 – 66.7	542	33
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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