What I mean by the urban bias to be skeptical of BF evidence....
The three most common challenges I hear to the plausibility of BF existence are these:
1. How can it stay hidden?
2. What could it eat?
3. How come we don't find bodies?
Frankly, the mere posing of these questions reflects a huge failure of appreciation for the rural conditions in the U.S. and natural systems in general (not to mention human density shifts and deer population trends). These types of questions are hardly ever asked by people who spend any significant amount of time in the outdoors, especially by a hunter or any owner of any large tract of rural land. For most rural residents, I'd hazard to say the answers are axiomatic. (Yes, there are other questions pertinent to Sasquatch study, but these recur most often)
When you couple this lack of knowledge with a cultural propensity to view the rural population as unsophisticated, superstitious or uneducated in general...well...I think the bias is palpable. Like I said, I think this gets in the way.