{"id":15799,"date":"2017-04-12T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T10:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15799"},"modified":"2024-07-01T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T21:10:23","slug":"the-hajnal-line-an-interesting-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15799","title":{"rendered":"The Hajnal Line &#8211; An Interesting Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/HajnalLine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15800\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/HajnalLine-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Hajnal Line\" width=\"772\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>so, to sum up \u2014 INSIDE (or to the west of) the hajnal line we find:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 late marriage and 10-20% of adults never marrying<br \/>\n\u2013 small families, either nuclear or stem<br \/>\n\u2013 higher average iqs than outside the line<br \/>\n\u2013 the highest concentrations of human accomplishment in europe<br \/>\n\u2013 more democracy<br \/>\n\u2013 greater civic-mindedness or orientation towards the commonweal<br \/>\n\u2013 generally low perceived corruption<br \/>\n\u2013 high individualism<br \/>\n\u2013 and low homicide rates in the 19th century<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>why?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbdchick.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/10\/big-summary-post-on-the-hajnal-line\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/hbdchick.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/10\/big-summary-post-on-the-hajnal-line\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so, to sum up \u2014 INSIDE (or to the west of) the hajnal line we find: \u2013 late marriage and 10-20% of adults never marrying \u2013 small families, either nuclear or stem \u2013 higher average iqs than outside the line \u2013 the highest concentrations of human accomplishment in europe \u2013 more democracy \u2013 greater civic-mindedness &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=15799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hajnal Line &#8211; An Interesting Read&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52289,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions\/52289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}