Obvious scams are obvious on purpose, but not for the reason you’re suggesting. They don’t want to waste actual manpower on anyone smart enough to recognize a scam. So they make the scam obvious, and they know that anyone that does respond to it is in that small percentage of clueless or gullible people that the scam might actually succeed on. They’re not trying to play 4D chess, they’re trying to find the people that can only play 1D checkers.

I’ve managed to get Cryostasis working, and for a game over a decade old, it’s a lot of fun. Great atmosphere, interesting mechanics, fascinating story, the whole package.

The Wikipedia entry for it is pretty scathing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers–Briggs_Type_Indicator

If you look into it further, neither of the people who designed it has any background in psychology except having read a book by Jung once.

The Mayers Briggs Type Indicator test. It was developed with the same rigor as horoscopes, yet I still hear people I know are smart proudly tell me their four letter personality code.

PPPPPP the VVVVVV soundtrack. Such a jam