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Comment by kasey_junk

Some of the answers to these questions are highly subjective, leading them to not be great examples of how wrong someone is.

For instance, the % of budget spent on defence by the US question only includes (I assume) the DoD discretionary budget and the Overseas Contingency Budget. It leaves out the VA, the State Dept. Homeland Security, the Justice Dept. , the National Intelligence Program, and the NSF, all of which have defence components.

So in that case it's not so much that someone is wrong if they pick the incorrect answer, it's just that the definition of defence spending is nuanced.

parent kasey_junk 12 years ago

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