What is The Best of Youth's IQ Score?

The Best of Youth has an IQ Score of 187/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 48/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 44/50 Educational Value, and 49/50 Craft & Quality.

Is The Best of Youth educational?

The Best of Youth is strong on Educational Value, 44/50 on TVI's rubric, which rates the density and integration of substantive information within the work.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

The Best of Youth IQ Score 187/200

The Best of Youth has an IQ Score of 187/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-10-05·Methodology

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187/ 200

Masterclass

Exceptional cognitive and educational substance, delivered with craft that sustains close attention

Score Breakdown

Legacy score. Published under our earlier workflow, before the current standard took effect in August 2026. A founder reviewed and approved it against our methodology, under a process that does not meet the standard we hold now. What this means →

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Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3.1

Formula

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

Database scale

2,608 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Marco Tullio Giordana's six-hour epic follows two brothers from 1966 to 2003, threading Italian history through one Roman family: the 1968 student protests, Franco Basaglia's psychiatric reform, Red Brigades terror, and the judicial wars of the 1990s. Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessio Boni anchor a narrative that earns its runtime by refusing to compress causality.

Originally produced as a four-part RAI miniseries and rereleased as two theatrical halves, the structural form is the argument: history happens to families across decades, not across acts. Cannes Un Certain Regard 2003.

People & Production Marco Tullio Giordana · Rai Fiction · Italy 26 connections