What is Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood's IQ Score?

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood has an IQ Score of 148/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Stimulating tier. The score breaks down to 36/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 36/50 Educational Value, and 40/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood educational?

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is strong on educational value, 36/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood , IQ Score 148/200

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood has an IQ Score of 148/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MPH·Updated 2026-05-26·Methodology

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148/ 200

Stimulating

Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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Why you should trust this score

Methodology reviewed by Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician scientist. Master of Public Health, with substantial coursework in research methodology. Reviews the rubric and its application across the adult catalog.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.2

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,316 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Richard Linklater →

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The TVI Take

Linklater's 2022 rotoscope-animated memoir. Growing up in 1969 Houston during the Apollo program, with Jack Black narrating the adult perspective and Milo Coy voicing the boy.

The film operates as memory rather than narrative, layered with period commercial detail, schoolyard ritual, and television cadence. Educational about the Apollo program and the cultural texture of late-Sixties American suburbia. The rotoscope technique has refined considerably since A Scanner Darkly, used here for warmth rather than alienation.

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