That would be a good argument if people were being hired solely on the basis of their responses to these questions. No one's doing that. These are simply filter

That would be a good argument if people were being hired solely on the basis of their responses to these questions. No one's doing that. These are simply filter questions used to decide who to do initial interviews with and need to be discussed in terms of their false positive/negative failures. False positive: people can lie with no meaningful way to verify. False negative: you're increasing the funnel drop rate of your recruiting pipeline while simultaneously selecting against more experienced and non-traditional candidates. Why would you ask this except for cargo culting?