Men and autism

I just read this article on Beyond Understanding - Do the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein suggest that the autistic mind and the philosophical mind have something in common?

I was amused recently when a number of friends on facebook were doing the autism quotient test (I wasn’t game to try it) and a few male friends were brave enough to post their high scores. Curiously they were highly creative gifted types. The article says:

“Men tend to be autistic on average. More so than women.” The accepted male-to-female ratio for autism is roughly 4-to-1; for Asperger’s the ratio jumps even higher, by some accounts 10-to-1 (other statistics give higher or lower figures but retain the male prevalence). Asperger himself wrote that the autistic mind is “an extreme variant of male intelligence” …

What that has to do with anything I don’t know, but there you have it. I don't "get" men, so I don't know what that means my problem is.