Originally Posted by rickair7777

The computer will lower your score for checking a box like that.

Some employers may be suspicious that there may have been under-handed dealings on the part of the applicant as well as the DPE. Rather than do the research and try to make a judgement, they might simply move on to the next applicant. Their objective is not to be fair, but to hire people with the minimum effort and expense. That's why squeeky-clean is so popular with airline HR ladies. Hopefully most will weigh this and not hold it against the applicant.