I am not trying to be defeatist when I say that adults have a harder time acquiring new skills. Maybe the factor is not that large as previously thought, but t

I am not trying to be defeatist when I say that adults have a harder time acquiring new skills. Maybe the factor is not that large as previously thought, but there is still a difficulty factor that increases as you get older. EDIT: Well there goes my hope for HN supporting differing viewpoints. Pollyannaism is what one should support if one cares about karma. I welcome multiple downvotes without explanation on where my hypothesis fails. The OP (despite bias in promoting language learning schools as he is CEO of one) does not even disagree with me: "Certainly on average the later learner seems to have a rarer time getting there, but is it impossible? The data tells us that it’s not. On average less likely, certainly, but there are thousands of people who took this quiz, got a score in the range that a native speaker would, and started learning the language after the age of 20." So it is possible but much harder/rarer.