I'm not going to point fingers here, nor do I hold a grudge. The people who suck are those who went and purposely deflated their baseline scores. You weren't to know that.
However, I'm wondering whether what you're saying does hold some truth, not essentially in respect of you but more generally. Didn't Lucchino say something along the lines that they learned from social media points of enquiry that patients had been sharing the WR entry criteria?
It's easy to imagine gaming word scores but with EHF too there is potentially a huge incentive to lie there, too, to have a lower PTA to qualify (ie you only have a 30db notch at 8khz and everything else is at 5db but you made your EHF seem in the moderate range for insurance of getting in).
Most of the people who applied are probably very knowledgeable about the drug and the requirements considering it wasn't in the mainstream news.
Unblinding at the individual level would answer that better.
I know i keep harping on this but there would be zero reason for the Phase 1 super responders to lie unless the whole company is a fraud and I just can't imagine that.