AEsco...you think?...lol. I am a mechanical engineer. If you want to speculate put some transducers on a fork and do an A to B comparison by measuring strain under load for each scenario. This discussion BTW is analogous to hard attaching the rear stays on a bike frame to a trainer. The only difference is a trainer with rider on it will impart much higher bending loads to the lugs and rear stays of a frame than driving around with a fork/frame attached to a fork mount rack on top of your car with no rider.
And Chorus Girl...love the name incidentally...is correct.
George