I found the question and answer weights as well as some primary source documents on the methodology in the court file. My interpretation is that this was not "

I found the question and answer weights as well as some primary source documents on the methodology in the court file. My interpretation is that this was not "obviously designed to be gamed with secret information", it was just bad methodology. They had a goal of screening out 70% of applicants, but the remaining 30% of applicants needed to have a demographic balance that would not constitute a disparate impact, and they had to do this in a legally defensible way. Working backwards from that goal, they took biographical data that they had collected in the 80s and 90s and constructed a test program that, they believed, would give them the result they wanted. So if the answer weights are logically nonsensical, it's not because they were building in a secret password, it's because that's what happens when you build a model that's overfit on a small number of datapoints. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.182656/gov.uscourts.dcd.182656.139.26.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.182... https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4542755/139/24/brigida-v-united-states-department-of-transportation/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4542755/139/24/brigida-...