Race was the term used by the authors. Certainly from a genetic perspective, there is no such thing as race. It's purely a phenotypic term, though perhaps epigenetic modifications play some role in the quantization of what people define as "races." That would certainly be something not taken into consideration in the 2006 article you provided. I don't know, it's not something I really think about, I don't care about where people are from, only how they think.
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I am aware that the linked text is not the newest anymore but due to some good explanations I still prefer it over most other sources available in the internet ... the current taxonomic assessment is still the same anyway ...
Concerning the self-rating of being more intelligent than average that's just typical human. Let me name another funny example: if you ask people about the coming soccer world champion, the majority (or at least a rather high percentage) will answer their own country will probably win, even if - obviously - the probability p = 1 that any team will win the tournament is distributed on all teams, so that even the best team has a rather low probability (not more than typically roughly p = 0.2 or lower) to become world champion.
I guess educated people are a bit atypical, in rating them selves on average less intelligent then they are. :D