Sorry, Alton Brown's IQ is not officially reported. The average IQ is 100.
Born on July 30, 1962, Alton Brown worked in film production for a decade before going to culinary school and creating Good Eats, which led to a successful career as a celebrity chef, best-selling author and Food Network star.
An Intelligence Quotient, or IQ, is a measure of what psychologists call our "fluid and crystallized intelligence." Put simply, an IQ test measures your reasoning and problem-solving abilities.
There are different kinds of IQ tests, but most analyze your visual, mathematical and language abilities as well as your memory and information processing speed. A licensed psychologist administers a series of subtests; the results are then combined into one score: Your IQ.
According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, kids who score higher on IQ tests will, on average, go on to do better in conventional measures of success in life: Academic achievement, economic success, even greater health, and longevity.
A research concludes that IQ scores are partly a measure of how motivated a child is to do well on the test. And harnessing that motivation might be as important to later success as so-called native intelligence.
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