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College of William and Mary · History

5.8% of College of William and Mary's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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College of William and Mary: 5.8% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
83%Center-left59–74
17%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HIST 235 · African American History to Emancipation63

History

Credits: (3) College Curriculum: COLL 200 Domain (Anchored): CSI Domain (Reaching Out): ALV This course explores the history of African-descended people in the U.S. from their first arrival in the North American colonies through the end of…

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HIST 213 · Founders and Foundings in US History & Popular Memory62

History

Credits: (3) College Curriculum: COLL 200 Domain (Anchored): CSI Additional Domain (if applicable): ALV The "founders"-revolutionaries, reformers, and framers of the government of the United States-have a driving role in how Americans and…

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HIST 225 · History on Stage62

History

Credits: (3) College Curriculum: COLL 200, 350 Domain (Anchored): CSI Domain (Reaching Out): ALV Few would argue that "history plays" are a true and accurate representation of past events. Yet, a great deal of knowledge and culture is…

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Furthest right

None. College of William and Mary History has 6 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
College of William and Mary · Historybias_left_share5.8—104—
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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