There's even a name for this: Hawthorne Effect From Wikipedia: "The Hawthorne effect refers to a type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of th

There's even a name for this: Hawthorne Effect From Wikipedia: "The Hawthorne effect refers to a type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect (Yes, the Hawthorne Effect is more general than the specific case here where people want to influence the outcome in a particular way, but it's still cool that this is known to be a thing)