Most human beings in any forum, anywhere, will be more obsessed with signaling and other concerns than The Truth—even in a pseudo-anonymous survey—and will be subject to most of the standard cognitive biases that bodybuilders will be, even if to a lesser degree. Being obsessed with The Truth does not mean never lying or exaggerating (or reporting just that one internet IQ test you took that was 1 std dev higher than your real-world test).
It’s only a little more surprising than somebody at an online forum for bodybuilders lying about how much they can bench press.
I take it the reason it’s not equally surprising is that few bodybuilders are as monomaniacally obsessed with The Truth as we are?
Most human beings in any forum, anywhere, will be more obsessed with signaling and other concerns than The Truth—even in a pseudo-anonymous survey—and will be subject to most of the standard cognitive biases that bodybuilders will be, even if to a lesser degree. Being obsessed with The Truth does not mean never lying or exaggerating (or reporting just that one internet IQ test you took that was 1 std dev higher than your real-world test).