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Harvard University · Anthropology

17.5% of Harvard University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Harvard University: 17.5% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
29%Left75–91
71%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
7 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

ANTHRO 1716 · Neoliberalism: Empire, Extraction, and the Making of the Global Social Order80

Anthropology

This seminar course is designed primarily for advanced undergraduates and graduate students who are interested in the relationship between neoliberalism, the global social order, and inequities in health and wellbeing. It examines…

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ANTHRO 1713 · Disability and the Body77

Anthropology

Is disability a human constant? Is it the physical outcome of an event/accident (including particular genetic combinations and developmental events in the fetus) or exposure to toxicity? Is it merely a social consequence of bodily norms,…

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ANTHRO 1906 · Care in Critical Times72

Anthropology

What is care? How can and do communities mobilize care as a social intervention, political act, and tool for building intimacy, healing, and hope? Now, more than ever, it is imperative that we care for ourselves and our communities, but…

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Furthest right

None. Harvard University Anthropology has 7 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
Harvard University · Anthropologybias_left_share17.5—40—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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