The media, left and right, try so very hard to twist the facts into a story that confirms their views of the world.  Heather MacDonald explains in City Journal how the New York Times is so convinced that gender bias exists in math and science education (against females) that it ignores the salient facts.  One of those facts is that males saturate both ends of the bell curve, not just the high end.

A new study has “found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests,” claims a July 25 [Times] article by Tamar Lewin-thus, the underrepresentation of women on science faculties must result from bias. Actually, the study, summarized in the July 25 issue of Science, shows something quite different: while boys’ and girls’ average scores are similar, boys outnumber girls among students in both the highest and the lowest score ranges.

MacDonald reminds us that feminists don’t seem to complain about the “gender bias” that results in males outnumbering females in the lowest score range.  But hey, let’s not let the facts get in the way of an interesting worldview.