History
Covers the collapse of Austro-Hungary, its successor states in the inter-war period, World War II, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe.
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University of Florida
University of Florida's course descriptions average 63.6 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Florida reads 3.9 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
2%Far left92–100
32%Left75–91
44%Center-left59–74
10%Center42–58
5%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
4%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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
Internal political, economic, and social history of 20th-century Russia, including the impact of modernization, the rise of radical ideologies, the Bolshevik revolution, and the evolution of the Soviet Union.
Ethnic & African American Studies
An examination of the Black Power Movement, including major themes, roots in previous black organizing, associated groups and figures, and its influence on present society and activism.
Furthest-right subjects
Ethnic & African American Studies
Explores the history of African Americans from their arrival in the United States in 1619 to the end of the Civil War in 1865. Examines the experiences of enslaved Africans and African Americans, their resistance to slavery, and the various…
History
Origins of anti-Semitism in central Europe and the execution of the Holocaust by Nazi Germany. Examines the ideology of the Nazi leaders and the role of the SS, Army, Police, and ordinary citizens in perpetrating genocide.
History
Political and cultural analysis of the history of Nazi Germany examining Nazi ideology, the origins of the Nazi state, coercion and consent among ordinary Germans, persecution of the disabled and of Jews, resistance and non-resistance, and…
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 61.9 to 65.4; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- Only 22 of University of Florida'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.
University of Florida by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 25.9% | 27 | view |
| Sociology | 13.3% | 30 | view |
| Psychology | 4.3% | 46 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 4% | 25 | view |
| History | 2.8% | 142 | view |
| Anthropology | 1.3% | 78 | view |
| Political Science | 1.3% | 80 | view |
| Art & Art History | 1.1% | 177 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 67 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0% | 115 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 46 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 69 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Florida | mean_bias_score | 63.6 | 61.9 – 65.4 | 902 | 22 |
| 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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