Decoy is unnecessarily pejorative here. This is known as price anchoring. Anchoring is an influence tactic based on human psychological bias. I am not really s

Decoy is unnecessarily pejorative here. This is known as price anchoring. Anchoring is an influence tactic based on human psychological bias. I am not really sure why ethics would come into this discussion. Do ethics come into picture when you are considering/selecting databases or programming languages? edit: rephrased.