Heh. Happens all the time with tests and questionnaires, the choice is always frustrating:
* "Does the author really mean what they are asking? Are the mistakes in the phrasing or corner cases intentional, meant to catch me, test my deep knowledge?", or
* "Is the author just not very good with logic / not thinking this through?"
I go with the latter in "soft social" contexts. Never regretted it yet.
This saved my hide recently in June, when I had to undergo a mandatory psychological examination for my gun license permit. Serious official stuff, with my permit on the line… And the "serious" psy-test was exactly as "robust" you'd expect from the field of psychology.
I answered the way I figured the test author construed the questions (= what they likely meant to ask), not what they actually asked. Easy pass.
* "Does the author really mean what they are asking? Are the mistakes in the phrasing or corner cases intentional, meant to catch me, test my deep knowledge?", or
* "Is the author just not very good with logic / not thinking this through?"
I go with the latter in "soft social" contexts. Never regretted it yet.
This saved my hide recently in June, when I had to undergo a mandatory psychological examination for my gun license permit. Serious official stuff, with my permit on the line… And the "serious" psy-test was exactly as "robust" you'd expect from the field of psychology.
I answered the way I figured the test author construed the questions (= what they likely meant to ask), not what they actually asked. Easy pass.