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Cornell University · Economics

1.3% of Cornell University's Economics course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Economics departments, it is 1.5%.

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Cornell University: 1.3% Economics at all 100 schools: 1.5% each other school in the comparison

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

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Furthest left

ECON 3465 · Bridging the Divide: Labor Market Reforms and Place-Based Policies60

Economics

Should policy interventions target inequality between workers or disparities between places? Inequality has risen in most developed countries in recent decades. While top incomes have grown significantly, incomes at the bottom of the…

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Furthest right

None. Cornell University Economics has 1 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
Cornell University · Economicsbias_left_share1.3—76—
Economicsbias_left_share1.51.3 – 1.88,432—
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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