What is A Hidden Life's IQ Score?

A Hidden Life has an IQ Score of 169/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 43/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 41/50 Educational Value, and 43/50 Craft & Quality.

Is A Hidden Life educational?

A Hidden Life is strong on educational value, 41/50 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/.

A Hidden Life , IQ Score 169/200

A Hidden Life has an IQ Score of 169/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-17·Methodology

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169/ 200

Masterclass

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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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, v1.2

Formula

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

Database scale

2,338 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Terrence Malick →

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The TVI Take

Terrence Malick's 2019 biographical film about Franz Jägerstätter, the Austrian peasant farmer who refused to swear loyalty to Hitler and was executed in 1943. The structural commitment to letting religious-conscience cognition operate against political-coercion architecture, at three-hour scale, is the catalog's most-direct theological work.

Among Malick's most-disciplined late-career entries.

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