Intellectual humity refers to the idea that

People who are intellectually humble know that their beliefs, opinions, and viewpoints are fallible because they realize that the evidence on which their beliefs are based could be limited or flawed or that they may not have the expertise or ability to understand and evaluate the evidence. Intellectual humility involves understanding that we can’t fully trust our beliefs and opinions because we might be relying on faulty or incomplete information or are incapable of understanding the details.

What Does Intellectual Humility Look Like?

What about the collective?

Intellectual humility can work entirely differently in the context of a group, where collective intellectual humility can often blind individuals the more intellectual individuals exist within it.

…The tendency of a collective’s members to attend to each other’s intellectual limitations and to the limitations of the cognitive efforts of the collective.

How to cultivate collective intellectual humility