TV Intelligentsia is building the definitive measurement of intellectual value in television and film. We believe what you watch shapes how you think.
Every rating system tells you whether something is good. None tell you whether it's good for you. Rotten Tomatoes measures critic consensus. IMDb measures popularity. Metacritic aggregates reviews. But none of them answer the question that actually matters: what does this show do to your brain?
We built the IQ Score to fill that gap. It's a 0-200 scale that measures the cognitive demand a title places on its audience across three dimensions: Cognitive Stimulation, Educational Value, and Entertainment Quality.
You can't improve what you can't measure. The IQ Score gives you a vocabulary for talking about the intellectual value of entertainment.
A low IQ Score doesn't mean a show is bad. It means it serves a different purpose. We measure — we don't judge.
Our methodology is published. Our scoring rubrics are open. We show the three dimension scores, not just the final number.
1,377 titles scored. Every score computed from twelve sub-metrics across three dimensions using a multi-dimensional framework grounded in published cognitive science.
Jordan Robinson built TV Intelligentsia because he was tired of finishing a series and not being able to articulate why it felt different from everything else. Some shows leave you sharper. Some leave you numb. The difference should be measurable.
Jordan is building toward a platform where intellectual value is as trackable as calories — not to restrict consumption, but to make informed choices about what you feed your mind.
Questions about the methodology, partnership inquiries, or just want to argue about a score?
jordan@tvintelligentsia.com