I bet the dev just grepped all words ending in "ology" and just put them all in the app.

Add phrenology as a skill so you can seem like an expert when you call your boss a troglodyte for being annoying

Bit idea: pulling out calipers during the interview and praising your potential boss for having the brow of a true leader

essential skills for a brave new argentina!

oh, you're applying to be a Harvard professor?

brb, updating my LinkedIn

Check for a skill called "alphabetology" and see if you can get a job with the job application site itself, because I have some additional issues with their way of ordering this list.

More like asking for your skulls...

🎵🎵 You know what's wroooong with me
You know phrenoooology
You saw my injuuuuuuury.
You can tell just by looking at my skull 🎵🎵

Maybe it's a way to filter out the cranks

If there is an in person interview that you get to, this wouldn't be a bad thing to mention. Make it a casual aside like 'btw, your online application lists phrenology as a possible skill to check and this was a long debunked and very racist pseudo science from the turn of the 20th century, I think someone just copies and pasted a list, but it's essentially having 'race science' as a skill in your application, figured it's something you'd want to be aware of.". Unless you're applying for a racism factory you just did them a solid and pointed out an oversight during the job interview. That should help you, pointing out phrenology is on their application isn't 'don't hire this person cause they're a cage rattler' kinda thing to point out, it's borderline illegal, super mainstream level considered bad and easy to fix (most importantly). You can use this to your advantage

And every other -ology you can think of!