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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Anthropology

3.3% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of Tennessee-Knoxville: 3.3% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology 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
5 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 424 · Queer Anthropology72

Anthropology

Queer anthropology, a field that was established out of various older fields in the discipline – anthropology of gender, anthropology of sexuality, lesbian and gay anthropology – emerged as a response to calls in other disciplines to move…

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ANTH 422 · Anthropology of Global Inequality65

Anthropology

Survey of the study of global inequality, exploring the problem of inequality through a range of theoretical and ethnographic accounts in anthropology and related disciplines. Emphasis on poverty and structural inequality in the…

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ANTH 575 · Deconstructing Eugenics65

Anthropology

Focuses on understanding the circumstances, individuals, and ideas that brought about eugenics and its implementation from its roots in the 18th century to the present. Based on a flawed application of biological thinking, and fueled by…

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Furthest right

None. University of Tennessee-Knoxville Anthropology has 5 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
University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Anthropologybias_left_share3.3—150—
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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