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Haverford College's course descriptions average 67.7 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Haverford College reads 0.1 points further left.

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Haverford College: 67.7 (likely range 65.8 to 69.6) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

3%Far left92–100

21%Left75–91

70%Center-left59–74

7%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

76 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.

Furthest left

ENGL H230 · Poetics of Abolition95

English & Comparative Literature

This course explores the role of poetry and other forms of creative expression in the history of prison abolition and related social justice movements. Focusing on incarcerated writers and artists who theorize life worlds in and beyond…

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COML H245 · Performance, Literature and the Archive92

English & Comparative Literature

The 'archive,' as both an institutional and performance practice and a theoretical concept, has been one of the most studied sites in performance and literary studies. The hegemonic, patriarchal institution of the archive that constructs…

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ENGL B237 · Cultural Memory and State-Sanctioned Violence in Latinx Literature82

English & Comparative Literature

This course examines how Latinx literature grapples with state-sanctioned violence, cultural memory, and struggles for justice in the Americas. Attending to the histories of dictatorship and civil war in Central and South America, we will…

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Furthest right

None. Haverford College has 74 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 65.8 to 69.6; 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.

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

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Anthropology	36.7%	30	view
Sociology	33.3%	21	view
Political Science	26.7%	45	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	25%	20	view
History	22.7%	44	view
English & Comparative Literature	20.2%	84	view
Women's & Gender Studies	15.4%	13	view
Philosophy	5.6%	36	view
Art & Art History	5.2%	77	view
Psychology	4.5%	44	view
Religious Studies	3.4%	29	view
Economics	2.0%	51	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
Haverford College	mean_bias_score	67.7	65.8 – 69.6	494	76
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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