New research suggests that racial differences are really just skin deep.
Some even say that the word race should be abandoned because it's meaningless. One of the most exhaustive recent studies examined the results of 49,450 college-bound folks who took the ACT Interest Inventory in October 1989. The test, taken each year by more than 4 million Americans, is used by vocational counselors to help match people with careers. There's been some concern that the test might be subject to the same kind of bias against nonwhites that other tests, including standard intelligence and college placement exams, have been accused of. So Susan Day, a researcher and doctoral candidate in psychology, and James Rounds, professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois in Champaign, set out to find out.