It's hard not to read this comment as, "I don't like the conclusion, so it'd be better if we simply stayed ignorant of these facts."

Why do you need to be 'sold' on scientifically verified knowledge?

> The article makes a vague attempt at balance by noting that individual differences are more important than these statistical variances

This is not an "attempt at balance", because individual variance and group averages are not competing ideas or opposing ideologies that must be balanced against each other.