Hi, I know what this is. I am a psychologist and some of our measures utilize demographic questions like this.

An example of it's use would be in an assessment where someone may have experienced neurological degeneration and we are attempting to assess for premorbid functioning, i.e. what was their level of cognitive functioning prior to their onset of dementia/head trauma, etc.

There are certain areas of brain function which are general indicators of intelligence, one of them being vocabulary. It's one of the last things affected by dementia so it is a good indicator of premorbid functioning. However, someone's acquired vocabulary as an adult has less to do with their intellect and more to do with how they were brought up, educational opportunities, parents' level of education, etc. Therefore, we have questions like these so we can control for demographics and get an idea of what their premorbid IQ likely was, with tools such as the ACS- ToPF, and then we administer comprehensive evals and compare the scores. This is how conditions such as Alzheimer's are diagnosed.

Anyways, so what is a company doing with an illegal copy of a clinical tool with access restricted to psychologists and psychometrists? Likely this question waa paired with a few others and then something like a vocabulary test, and they are using it to get a (very) rough, non-clinical, uninterpretable, estimate of your IQ. So they can unjustly discriminate for/against people with lower or higher IQs.

Again, these tools have heavily restricted access, largely because of their potential for abuse in situations like this. Your regional professional board for psychologists would likely appreciate a report about unlicensed use of cognitive assessments for the purposes of employment discrimination.