CBC Radio50%
How 'surveillance pricing' uses our personal data to charge us more 32%
By Brent Bambury0%
4/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM
Topics: Data Privacy, E Commerce
BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 40.9% saturation with 45 hits. Analysis detected 203 faulty-reasoning hits from 110 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 40.9% and a BS Rank of 32% (11,476 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 68.30% of the article peer group.
As we buy more and more things online, companies are using personal data to offer different prices to different people with the goal of finding the maximum price you will pay at that moment.
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Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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No True Scotsman
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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110 words analyzed.
Analysis
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