Is Psych actually good?

Psych sits in the 89.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked seriess, meaning it scores above 89.5% of them. That figure is a rank, not a star average: each reviewer's score is re-centred on their own rating history before anything is compared, so a generous grader and a harsh one count the same.

How does Psych compare to similar seriess?

Within TV Series · 2000s, Psych lands in the 79.1% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a series for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Psych's score based on?

211 reviewers cleared the calibration test for Psych — meaning their rating history varies enough to place a personal baseline. Reviewers who rate everything the same carry no information and are excluded rather than averaged in.

How is the Psych score calculated?

Every review is scored relative to the reviewer's own average rather than taken at face value, then each calibrated reviewer is weighted equally and the result is expressed as a percentile against the full corpus. The output is a rank among peers, which is why it is published as a percentile and never as a star rating.

2006

global pct

89.5

TV Series · 2006 · TV Series · 2000s

Psych

Name: Psych
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Released: 2006
Duration: 43 min

Scored from 211 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).

89.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

79.1%

In-cohort percentile

TV Series · 2000s · 1,360 titles

98.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

211 calibrated reviewers, thin samples pulled to the mean

Summary

Shawn Spencer was raised in Santa Barbara by his police-detective father Henry, who drilled him to notice every detail — training that left him unemployable but able to crack cases off a TV news report. When his tips make the police suspect him of complicity, he claims his deductions are psychic visions and parlays the bluff into a consulting job, opening an agency called Psych with best friend Burton 'Gus' Guster, a pharmaceutical salesman. The pair work Santa Barbara cases alongside dour Head Detective Carlton Lassiter, Junior Detective Juliet O'Hara and Chief Karen Vick, while Shawn keeps the fraud from unravelling. The USA Network comedy-mystery ran eight seasons from 2006 on running gags and 1980s pop-culture pastiche.

Released in 2006, Psych is a comedy, crime and mystery television series. A typical episode runs 43 minutes. It is rated TV-PG. It was made in the United States.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 93 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 1,359 other television series from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. 211 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 233 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

How the score was built

We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.

Global percentile: Where Psych lands against every title we rank.
In-cohort percentile: The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
AI-adjusted percentile: The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 211.