Comment by daemonologist
2 months ago
I agree that it seems likely that the weird questions and their weighting came from over-fitting as you describe. The cheating allegation though, from my reading, is that the "correct" answers were leaked and then disseminated by the leakee(s). (And that this was particularly impactful because it was unlikely that you would pass the overfit test otherwise.)
When I read the IG report and saw what the guy actually said (and that his list of secret buzzwords actually turned out to be a photocopy from a resume writing book) it was pretty clear that he was bullshitting and claiming that he had inside information about the process that he didn't actually have.
The investigation says the screenshots he talked about were for USA Jobs too, not the nonsense biographical test. Seems like it ought to be pretty easy to just check if NBCFAE members passed the that test at an unusually high rate.