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Williams College · Anthropology

40.7% of Williams College's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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Williams College: 40.7% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

8%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
58%Center-left59–74
8%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
12 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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

ANTH 258 · Buddhism, Social Change, & Reproductive Justice in the Anthropocene (DPE)92

Anthropology

Cross-listings: REL 258 / WGSS 225 / ASIA 258 Primary Cross-listing This course considers how three women profoundly shaped the Buddha's life and legacy in terms of social change & reproductive justice. Our central characters are Maya--the…

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ANTH 305 · The Gay Menagerie: Gay Male Subcultures83

Anthropology

Cross-listings: AMST 305 / WGSS 305 / THEA 304 Secondary Cross-listing Bears. Cubs. Otters. Pups. Twinks. Radical Fairies. Leathermen. Mollies. Drag queens. Dandies. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Gay men, including gay trans men, have…

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ANTH 345 · Political Life in India78

Anthropology

In 2020, tens of thousands of farmers parked their tractors on major highways leading into India's national capital of Delhi, erected a city of tents and camped out until--sixteen months later--the legislation they were protesting was…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Williams College Anthropology has 11 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Williams College · Anthropologybias_left_share40.7—27—
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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