What is Boxcar Bertha's IQ Score?

Boxcar Bertha has an IQ Score of 111/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 28/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 26/50 Educational Value, and 30/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Boxcar Bertha educational?

Boxcar Bertha is moderate on educational value, 26/50 on TVI's rubric. Some learning happens, but it isn't the show's primary work.

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/.

Boxcar Bertha , IQ Score 111/200

Boxcar Bertha has an IQ Score of 111/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

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

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111/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

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

Martin Scorsese →

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The TVI Take

Scorsese's 1972 Roger Corman exploitation feature. Barbara Hershey as a Depression-era union organizer's daughter who becomes a train robber.

The studio dues Scorsese paid before Mean Streets, executed with craft inside Corman's constraints but largely impersonal. Cassavetes reportedly told Scorsese afterward to stop wasting his life on this kind of work, which produced Mean Streets the following year. Modest historical context about Depression-era labor radicalism.

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