At the end o f the article, I find myself wondering why it's important to find a correlation (or disprove one) between race and IQ (two relatively arbitrary categories). I can certainly see where having this information would be conducive to advocating for marginalized people living within systems built on dividing people into these categories to facilitate inequity, but I would love to live in a world where everyone, regardless of perceived intelligence or racialized identity are cared for not because of their relationship to these categories but because they're alive and deserve to have their needs met. Of course I realize this is trite and idealistic, and that the current state of the world and all its many systems makes this hope unrealistic and I think this is still a valid (née vital) line of scholarly inquiry. Just one of the thoughts I'm left with at the conclusion.

I wonder if the invention and widespread use of the internet has had a measurable effect related to this change..

Happy to see some of my earlier concerns addressed/validated!

Were the perspectives on the decline, or did they just evolve into different schools of thought that hold similar beliefs/goals?

It occurs to me that measuring intelligence by age seems to rely exclusively on the amount of time someone has spent being alive in the world as the differentiating factor in intelligence levels. This seems like a particularly ill-positioned metric to attempt to understand the brain function of people from different social/cultural (or racialized) environments.

Like so many conceptual tools for greater understanding (however narrow or flawed in their scope), this one appears to have been corrupted by a burgeoning condition of industrial capitalism.

Two things here: if we follow the thread from the week 3 readings, the very foundation of this research question is flawed because we understand the concept of race to not be based on hard-wired, genetic difference, but rather on visually observable traits. And as I'm sure we'll get into in the rest of the reading, intelligence is a multi-faceted and in some definitions arbitrary measure of human brain function. Of course even considering these nuances, there's plenty of room for intriguing exploration.