<p>If the question was: Most Texas Judges are _________________.</p>
<p>And your textbook stated: "Most Judges in Texas are middle - age, Anglo males. Texas uses partisian elections to select most of its judges..."</p>
<p>What would your answer be? </p>
<p>I thought the question (although broad) was referring to the characteristics of Texas Judges and not the nature of how they are elected. When I was taking my exam "middle - age, Anglo males" was not even a choice/option. </p>
<p>The answer is indeed "elected in Partisian elections" but is it fair concerning the nature of this broad question. Should I discuss this with my professor or disregard this?</p>
<p>If it was a multiple choice test, what did you choose instead?</p>
<p>The answer choices were</p>
<ul>
<li>Partisian elections</li>
<li>non Partisian elections
and two other ones that I filtered out.</li>
</ul>
<p>Unfortunately I picked non-partisian, hence I skipped over the section because I was sure the "Most Judges in Texas are middle - age, Anglo males," was the correct and only answer because it was practically stated word for word in the book. Now I'm kicking myself in a fury over this question. The question was broad...do you agree. To get credit for this question I must make a credible argument with my professor.</p>
<p>Also if the bureacracy had OVER 2 million civilian employees and the question asked "By 2004, the Bureacracy had over _____million civilian employees." What would you chooses. 1.8 or 2.6? Hence the book stated : the modern beauracracy had over 2 million civilian employees, yet in 2003 the number of federal civilian employees was 2,715,000. Its asking for 2004 so what could have been the answer? Also this may be a stupid question but who does the bureacracy include? Just the executive branch or all the exec, legislative and judicial?</p>
<p>It's not the question that was the problem (although it was the part that the prof could have controlled for clarity/accuracy). The book is worded weirdly. Unfortunately it is part of our expected higher-order reasoning as college-level students (I'm taking college classes in HS) to determine what information is the most important. Is it really important that they are middle-ages white guys?</p>
<p>I get this from my history teacher ALL the time. Every test we get, I have one of these.</p>