Psychology
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The New School · Psychology
11.9% of The New School's Psychology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Psychology departments, it is 2.5%.
0%30%
Where Psychology courses fall
10%Far left92–100
44%Left75–91
42%Center-left59–74
2%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Furthest-left subjects
Psychology
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Psychology
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Furthest-right subjects
Psychology
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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
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New School · Psychology | bias_left_share | 11.9 | — | 328 | — |
| Psychology | bias_left_share | 2.5 | 2.2 – 2.8 | 9,330 | — |
- 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.