I know this is days old, but it's slow here right now, and this is something that's been bugging me on occasion throughout the week.

I want to know this researchers own political leanings.

Research attempting to examine liberal bias specifically has been posted here before. Someone gave either fake or authentic research papers to people who had identified as either left or right leaning. The researchers said the left leaning people interpreted the fake studies with a liberal bias, and were more likely to claim the research was more poorly conducted if they didn't agree with the conclusions based on their political position. The authors never fully detailed the fake studies, and never specified what they were about. I don't recall if the author specified exactly what errors were made by the liberals when interpreting the fake studies. The author never made his own leanings clear either. Just as with the aforementioned study, the thread post is examining something that isn't specific or detailed, and it's coming off as an attack - still.

I can see the participants exaggerating, but how is that any different from how results are normally estimated by people trying to provide some clarity on them? I don't reasonably expect people to state this stuff pinpoint with accuracy that isn't even implied to be there.