The article repeats the claim that it doesn't matter where you sit. My understanding is that being on or very close to an exit row is statistically safer. Whether you survive the immediate crash depends on the unpredictable details, but if you do, getting off the plane quickly is good.

(Theoretically if you are on an exit row you may be worse off if that exit can't be used, because you will be furthest from your second-nearest exit. However, I think that's unlikely and out-weighed by the benefits if you can use it. If you are mid-way between two exits, which ever one you go for you'll have to wait for a lot of other people to evacuate in front of you.)