[kasey_junk]

I'm willing to guess that question doesn't judge what you think it does.

First, I'd write down the specific things you are trying to determine with this question, and the metrics where by you could judge your employees after you've hired them on those things.

Second, I'd start collecting scores on that question (and all the others you do) and correlating them to "good" employees vs "bad" ones. That won't help you with the false negatives, but its usually enough to point out specifically terrible questions, of which the ASCII circle one is a doozy.

Drop it now, it's hurting your reputation with everyone who you ask it of.

(And if you aren't the originator/user of that question I apologize, substitute "they should" where appropriate)