pretty much all people that have non standard interests and do not answer questions in the standard ways are penalized, and I do not think it would be easy to fake the answers beneficially without access to the model being used.

Thinking about this, I'm curious about the last part.

Naively, it seems to me that if I'm being evaluated by a system and i know that the system penalizes respondents who have non standard interests and do not answer questions in the standard ways, but I don't have access to the model being used, then if I want to improve my score what I ought to do is pretend to have standard interests and to answer questions in standard ways (even when such standard answers don't reflect my actual thoughts about the question).

I might or might not be able to do that, depending on how good my own model of standard behavior is, but it doesn't seem that I would need to know about the model being used by the evaluators.

What am I missing?