believe me, as somebody in my 40s hanging out here on HN, i totally agree that plenty of young people don't fully understand the value of experience :-) but at

believe me, as somebody in my 40s hanging out here on HN, i totally agree that plenty of young people don't fully understand the value of experience :-) but at the same time i think that it's easy to focus too much on experience -- i learn just as much, maybe more, from much younger people than from people my age or older. and it's not just superstars who are subject to ageist attitudes. sure, some of the 47% may be misinterpreting valid issues as ageism -- but the same's likely to be true at any of the other age brackets in the chart, so it seems to me it's still mighty powerful evidence that it's a particularly acute problem at younger ages. agreed though that it would be interesting from an experimental point of view. my experience is that as people grow older, they realize that yes, there was some feedback they should have listened to -- but they also are able to see more clearly the different forms of discrimination they've suffered from in the past. (i didn't mean to imply it was you doing the downvoting, sorry if it came off that way)