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Louisiana State University's course descriptions average 62.8 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Louisiana State University reads 4.8 points further right.

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Louisiana State University: 62.8 (likely range 56.6 to 68.9) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

75%Center-left59–74

25%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

4 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 2716 · Language Diversity, Society, & Power72

English & Comparative Literature

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Also offered as LING 2716 . Social construction of language ideologies and issues of power as they relate to language variation and use. Examination of…

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WGS 2500 · Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies61

Women's & Gender Studies

This is an Integrative Learning Core (ILC) course that awards general education credit. Credit will not be given for this course and WGS 2501 . The interdisciplinary study of how gender and sexuality intersect with other social differences;…

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AAAS 4900 · History of the Civil Rights Movement60

Ethnic & African American Studies

Survey of the historic civil rights movement. Focuses on the 1940s through the late 1960s. Connections between the movement and ongoing liberation struggles in the United States.

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Furthest right

None. Louisiana State University has 4 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 56.6 to 68.9; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Only 4 of Louisiana State University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
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.

Louisiana State University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	9.1%	11	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	6.3%	16	view
Economics	1.2%	86	view
English & Comparative Literature	0.6%	178	view
Anthropology	0%	50	view
Art & Art History	0%	155	view
History	0%	97	view
Philosophy	0%	53	view
Political Science	0%	74	view
Psychology	0%	72	view
Religious Studies	0%	41	view
Sociology	0%	55	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
Louisiana State University	mean_bias_score	62.8	56.6 – 68.9	888	4
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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