I was, however, able to get most of the questions right. How? well, I do have a background in Econ and enjoy reading about budgetary things – that helps. Plus, I scanned all the questions prior to taking the test to see if there was a bent, if the author was trying to lead the test taker/reader to certain conclusions. I identified the bias correctly and based my answers on what the author wanted me to “discover” by taking the test.
In the end, the only one I missed was number 7 where I guessed, “About the same.”
Question 8 is strange: Budget shortfalls as a percentage of state GDP is like comparing apples to aardvarks. A better comparison would be FY budget shortfalls as a percentage of FY tax receipts.
