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Friday's discussion was very essential for the purpose of clarifying the misleading information of the article.  It seems very ridiculous to claim that because of the new data found, for example, there may be some correlation between a person's race and intelligence.  This brings me back to the question of 'what is race?'  As a class it was impossible to define what race exactly is.  Also, as stated in another response above, how does a difference in genes conclude that one race is better than another? As Will stated in class, we all essentially come from Africa.  If this is so, we are all equal in that sense.  I believe that it is absolute nonsense to believe that because someone is of a certain race they are better than others.  This reminds me of our discussions in my sociology class that in America there used to be this power-struggle for whites because they believed they were the pinnacle of all creation and that they were the only species that had fully evolved. As we know, this was a ridiculous thought.  One would expect that as humans we are intelligent enough not to go backwards and believe that because of a 1% difference in our DNA there is a difference in our intellectual levels.  I think the class was right in stating that this difference means nothing.  History has shown that people from all races have accomplished many great things, and just by looking at different schools around the world, there is a great variety of 'races' in the top schools.  Therefore, not only does the article not define what race exactly is, it does a poor job of validating its findings.  I believe that we are all one race...the human race.  What also really bothered me about the article was that the writer kept stating that society perhaps is not ready for these 'new findings' yet, here she is publishing it in the New York Times.