The animal behind most aggressive wildlife encounters may surprise you ⁠2%

By Libby Riddle⁠31%

7/2/2026, 6:21:36 AM

Keywords: Briefs, Embargo, Wildlife

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Availability Heuristic, and Negativity Bias, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 33.9% saturation with 61 hits. Analysis detected 314 faulty-reasoning hits from 180 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 8.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠2% (21,646 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.90% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 5.7%Science News: 2.6%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 4.3%Science News: 1.1%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 20.6%Libby Riddle: 2.4%Science News: 2.6%Availability Heuristic20.6%This article: 8.3%Libby Riddle: 4.7%Science News: 1.5%Representativeness Heuristic8.3%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.4%Science News: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 2.1%Science News: 2.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 12.2%Libby Riddle: 4.2%Science News: 4.1%Framing Effect12.2%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 1.3%Science News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.4%Science News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.4%Science News: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.0%Libby Riddle: 10.5%Science News: 4.0%Optimism Bias5.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.9%Science News: 1.5%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 13.9%Libby Riddle: 3.2%Science News: 4.1%Negativity Bias13.9%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 1.9%Science News: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.6%Science News: 0.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.2%Science News: 1.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 1.3%Science News: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.3%Science News: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.5%Science News: 0.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 4.4%Libby Riddle: 5.8%Science News: 4.4%Appeal to Authority4.4%This article: 1.1%Libby Riddle: 0.9%Science News: 1.2%False Dilemma1.1%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 1.3%Science News: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 33.9%Libby Riddle: 4.0%Science News: 3.9%Hasty Generalization33.9%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 8.9%Libby Riddle: 3.2%Science News: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion8.9%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 5.6%Libby Riddle: 3.5%Science News: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)5.6%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 1.8%Science News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 1.1%Science News: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.5%Science News: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 11.7%Libby Riddle: 2.2%Science News: 1.2%Anecdotal11.7%This article: 4.4%Libby Riddle: 0.5%Science News: 0.1%No True Scotsman4.4%This article: 9.4%Libby Riddle: 2.0%Science News: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)9.4%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.5%Science News: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 1.0%Science News: 0.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 5.6%Libby Riddle: 0.9%Science News: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection5.6%This article: 24.4%Libby Riddle: 3.0%Science News: 2.6%Biased Writer Voice24.4%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.6%Science News: 0.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 5.0%Libby Riddle: 0.0%Science News: 0.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.0%

180 words analyzed.

Speakers

7speakers31%attributed speech125writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageErin Garcia de Jesús • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageLibby Riddle • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageAaron Tremper • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageHannah Thomasy • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageBrianna Randall • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageNora Bradford • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageErin Garcia de Jesús • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageBethany Brookshire • 6 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Erin Garcia de Jesús

0%flagged-word coverage
16 attributed words29% of attributed speech95% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Biased Writer Voice-35.2 ptsWriter: 35.2%Erin Garcia de Jesús: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-8.0 ptsWriter: 8.0%Erin Garcia de Jesús: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -7.2 ptsWriter: 7.2%Erin Garcia de Jesús: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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