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Northeastern University · Anthropology

13.3% of Northeastern University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Northeastern University: 13.3% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
0%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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Furthest left

ANTH 2302 · Gender and Sexuality: A Cross-Cultural Perspective75

Anthropology

Explores concepts of "sex" and "gender" in a cross-cultural framework as they pertain to social status, work, the body, intersexuality, third or alternative genders, and intersectionality. Problematizes normative assumptions about…

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ANTH 3100 · Gender, Social Justice, and Transnational Activism73

Anthropology

Introduces key issues, themes, and debates in feminist transnational theory, practice, and activism in contemporary contexts and how it has changed under socioeconomic, political, and cultural processes of globalization. Examines…

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ANTH 4200 · Anthropology of Rural America70

Anthropology

Considers how rural areas are socially, geographically, and culturally constructed by political, social, and racialized forces through both isolationist and extractive practices. Confronts rurality as a political image, showing how it takes…

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Furthest right

None. Northeastern University Anthropology has 4 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
Northeastern University · Anthropologybias_left_share13.3—30—
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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