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Purdue University · Philosophy

1.1% of Purdue University's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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Purdue University: 1.1% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

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

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Furthest left

PHIL P4330 · Social Origins Of Philosphy72

Philosophy

00. An interpretation of Western philosophy seen as originating in the overthrow of the traditional matriarchy by the new patriarchal social order. Attention will be given to early mythic and philosophic documents, as well as recent…

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PHIL 33600 · Race, Gender, Class, And Identity70

Philosophy

00. The course is organized around such topics as Identity, Power, Privilege, and Social Institutions. Students will learn about race, gender, and class, including the ways on which they often intersect with one another to produce social…

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Furthest right

None. Purdue University Philosophy has 2 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
Purdue University · Philosophybias_left_share1.1—189—
Philosophybias_left_share2.72.4 – 3.17,780—
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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