[Kranar]

Sure it's cool but I don't see what's unexpected about it. So long as the reward is the same and the cheating is mostly effortless, I don't see why a cheater would prefer to play against honest people and have to compete against genuine skill versus a cheater competing against other cheaters.

If the reward were a function of how honest the environment/population was and cheaters still preferred the dishonest environment, then I'd find that to be interesting... but if the reward is mostly the same regardless of the nature of participants, then I don't see why cheaters would prefer to play against honest individuals.

I also don't think this finding generalizes very well, for example when cheating still requires a great deal of effort on the part of the cheater. For example take a competitive sport that is notorious for cheating, cycling. I'd be surprised if cyclists who take performance enhancement drugs would prefer to compete against other cyclists who use those drugs compared to competing against cyclists who don't use drugs.

Find me a study that comes to that conclusion and I'll be a lot more interested.