Oh totally, I'm not advocating prejudice based on age or any other demographic factor. I'm suggesting is that the author needs to somehow distinguish between p

Oh totally, I'm not advocating prejudice based on age or any other demographic factor. I'm suggesting is that the author needs to somehow distinguish between prejudice because of age, and failures because of actually not being good. My experience is that most people (of all ages) think they are better than they actually are. Some then go on to blame their failure to achieve a goal on some external factor (in this case ageism). I'm just suggesting that the graph showing that 47% of under 18's think they have been a subject of ageism is fairly irrelevant. Wait until those 18 year olds are 35, then ask them if they were subject to ageism at 18, I bet their story changes.