They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.No, the absurdities serve primarily as a method to winnow out people who can't be herded along into "consensus".
Or who weren’t “lucky” enough to be in the “correct” thought stream before they came.
I interviewed last year with another brainiac firm. I ended up not getting hired. A bummer then, as I badly needed a job, but I am now working for a humbler firm that pays more and it was clearly orchestrated by the good Lord.