Man Down
Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Women Are Better Cops, Drivers, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Beer Tasters, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else

I am pretty sure Dan Abrams wrote this book so he could win brownie points with the women in his life. Not that this is a bad thing, but this isn't much of a book. Oh, sure, it's full of statistics about how awesome women are, but everyone knows that it's not that hard to lie with numbers. It's too......more

I enjoyed this little pastiche of a book. I too read it in a day. He's a clever writer. One of my favorite quotes..."Someone once asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact,......more

Women are better then men at alot of things. But we don't go around and brag about it. Well maybe. I especially liked Chapter 6. WOMEN ARE BETTER WITH HAMMERS. Seems men can't hit the target with a hard object to pound into another surface. Could it be because he wants to be all macho and over does......more

I was a bit disappointed in this book. The title and concept was very intriguing, of course, but the chapters were only one or two pages long and gave short abrupt "scientific findings" about why a woman is better at [blank]. I felt very short changed.......more

Kind of fun to read about the areas in which women excel, but it's also a little 'cutesy'. Furthermore, when you're looking at the studies that have only a few dozen people in them (many of the studies had larger sample sizes), it's hard to take them seriously.......more