Van Sloan, researcher on IQ and social skills
(this site)
University studies confirm Sloan's earlier work on social skills = success and on IQ's for US states
Princeton University BSE
- my mediocre Engineering grades compared to top marks in Psychology courses showed where my real talents lay.Stanford University MBA
- including course work under psychologist Richard Atkinson, who became head of all Univ. of California schools.Photo taken December 2004 on a
visit to Bangkok
Sloan is interested in what leads to success for
individuals and for nations. His activities:2007: Following extensive travel in Mexico and Brazil, developed ideas to improve life for Mexicans and Brazilians. Results presented in two websites:
Improving Mexico's largest lake (http://geocities.com/lake_chapala)
Updating Brazil's national motto (http://geocities.com/progresso_ordem)
United Nations - updating its charter (http://www.geocities.com/vansloan/UN.html )
Libertarianism and Equality (http://www.geocities.com/vansloan/libertarian )
Fes improvements - note to the Prime Minister of Morocco (http://www.geocities.com/FesImprove )
Author of a high school Economics text that has received favorable comments from Milton Friedman (Nobel Laureate, conservative) and John Kenneth Galbraith (prominent liberal). A text revision included the logic behind the Federal Reserve's change from a target inflation of 0% to 2% for the USA. Sloan's correspondence with Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan arguing for the 2% likely influenced the Fed's change. The new Fed chairman has kept the 2% target. See http://econ.4mg.com/preface.htm for more on how Sloan's book got others to react.
Developed in 2004 the first valid US state IQ data, which became hugely popular during the Presidential election.
Proposed in 2007 a system for Eliminating IRS Tax Preparation for most US citizens
Researcher and presenter on Traits That Lead To Success - for 2500 students in California, New York, and Pennsylvania (at all socio-economic levels). Results featured in SELF magazine September 2000 Speaker at: June 2000 Fourth International Self-Esteem conference "Preparing Youth for the 21st Century," Western Association for College Admission Counseling, Association of California School Administrators, service clubs (Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions) 14 years in California public school districts as Business Manager, in Los Altos, Sunnyvale, and Half Moon Bay. Other past work: computer salesman and systems engineer for IBM Corporation, assistant to VP at Scott Foresman (textbook publisher), management consultant with Hayes and Associates (ACME firm in Chicago) Other Internet sites developed by Sloan:
World Leadership Centers (http://wlc.8m.net) - an analysis of world history, reviewed by the Chairman of Stanford's history department
Exotic Beach Destinations (http://rio.s5.com) Rio, Thailand, Bali, Mexico
The Princeton Alumni Weekly (January 26, 2005) reports at the bottom of page 84: DOTCOM: I am told by Van Sloan that 30,000 people a day read his web pages on IQ, economics, or travel. Links are at www.SQ.4mg.com/vansloan.htm (this page). Van has spent the year traveling to Bali, Mexico, and Thailand, visiting friends made online (29,997 to go) or skiing in Tahoe. (Information and/ or photos of 4 of the friends visited in the links in the prior sentence)
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