Mid-Book Review: The Essential Difference

Title: The Essential Difference--The Truth About the Male and Female Brain (hardcover version title)
Author: Simon Baron-Cohen
Status: Page 88 of 186, 271 including appendices (tests completed), bibliography, and index
Mid-Book Review: So far the author has stated his thesis pretty much over and over, as well as his caveats. Basically, I feel as long as you've heard the following points, you've read 88 pages of this book:

1. Males tend to be systematic thinkers, female empathetic thinkers, and experiments have "proven" this even minutes after a baby is born.
   
2. The above thesis refers to the average male and the average female, and there can be exceptions to the rule.
   
3. Autism can be though of as of having an overly "male" brain.
   

From what I've heard, point no. 3 is the most "controversial."

Besides using the same graphs over and over (but with different labels and titles) and referring to many experiments that seem to have unmentioned variables, Baron-Cohen feels like a fluff writer. His language is not too interesting--worse, this book suffers from the turn-my-paper-into-a-full-length-book syndrome. I'm only going to finish the book so I don't feel bad about selling it back.