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Washington University in St. Louis · Anthropology

12.4% of Washington University in St. Louis's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

0%45%
Washington University in St. Louis: 12.4% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

3%Far left92–100
16%Left75–91
81%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
31 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

L48 3942 · American Indians and American Empire94

Anthropology

This course critically explores the past and present struggles of Native Americans against white settler colonialism. We trace connections between U.S. domestic policy and imperialist ideologies, politics, and violent war from the United…

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L48 4501 · Decolonizing Anthropology82

Anthropology

Through books like Linda Tuhiwai Smith's book Decolonizing Methodology, tribal IRB's, and open letters, Indigenous people and tribal governments make clear how they want scientists to conduct research with their communities. How does…

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L48 3185 · A Rainbow Thread: A History of Queer Identities80

Anthropology

in Judaism and Islam The notion that gender and sexuality minorities are forbidden or simply do not exist within traditional judaism and islamic traditions is an assumption that has been questioned in recent years. For these scholars and…

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Furthest right

None. Washington University in St. Louis Anthropology has 31 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
Washington University in St. Louis · Anthropologybias_left_share12.4—251—
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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