Philosophy
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University of California-Irvine · Philosophy
2.3% of University of California-Irvine's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.
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Where Philosophy courses fall
0%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
25%Center-left59–74
25%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%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
Philosophy
Investigates the nature of knowledge from a feminist standpoint. Emphasizes the relevance of the knower's gender and social situatedness in knowledge practices against a traditional account of knowledge as a detached activity of an independent, neutral subject. Full 2024-25 1107
Philosophy
Investigates the nature of knowledge from a feminist standpoint. Emphasizes the relevance of the knower's gender and social situatedness in knowledge practices against a traditional account of knowledge as a detached activity of an independent, neutral subject.
Furthest-right subjects
None. University of California-Irvine Philosophy has 3 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California-Irvine · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 2.3 | — | 88 | — |
| Philosophy | bias_left_share | 2.7 | 2.4 – 3.1 | 7,780 | — |
- 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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