Intellectual Humility – Overview

Intellectual Humility is a character strength described as a “nonthreatening awareness of one’s intellectual

limitations.” It’s the ability to take in new information and decide whether or not changing your mind would be the
smart thing to do as a result.

In this report, based on the assessment you took, Intellectual Humility is broken down into four sub-categories:

1. Respect for Other Viewpoints: How well you are able to listen to other perspectives without bias or before
you decide to make a judgment call on the validity of the perspective.
2. Lack of Intellectual Overconfidence: Whether you’re entrenched in your own knowledge or expertise. How
hard it is to “shake you out of your tree,” so to speak.
3. Separation of Ego from Intellect: How much it personally hurts when you’re confronted with ideas or
perspectives that don’t jibe with—or go against—yours.
4. Willingness to Revise Viewpoints: How willing you are to take action and change your perspectives in light
of new information or perspectives.

Ultimately, these scores all combine into a single Intellectual Humility Index Score out of 100.

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General Intellectual Humility

Here is how you scored on the 21 questions designed to measure your intellectual humility in an average situation.
The higher all of these scores are, the higher your general level of Intellectual Humility. Your lowest scores will
indicate the areas that generally prevent you from using it. Each of the sub-scores is on a scale of 1 to 5. Overall
I.H. scores are measured on a scale from 0 to 100.

Your Score Average Score

Respect for Other Viewpoints 4.60 4.36

Lack of Intellectual Overconfidence 3.00 3.48

Separation of Ego and Intellect 3.80 3.58

Willingness to Revise Viewpoints 4.00 4.01

Overall Intellectual Humility Index 76.19 78.37

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Scenario-Based Intellectual Humility

Several questions you answered in your self-assessment were designed to see how you think
about applying intellectual humility in various scenarios. Most people score differently when
considering actual scenarios than they do when they’re asked to rate their own attributes generally.

Your Scenario-Based Scores vs General Scores

Scenario Score vs General Score

Respect for Other Viewpoints 3.40 –1.20

Lack of Intellectual Overconfidence 2.00 –1.00

Separation of Ego and Intellect 2.33 –1.47

Willingness to Revise Viewpoints 2.50 –1.50

(Note: The scenario-based questions and scores in this assessment have not been peer-reviewed and published in an academic journal. They
are based on qualitative research from a series of Snow Academy training workshops conducted in 2019. Your participation in this
assessment will help us generate anonymous data for further study this kind of scenario-based assessment.)

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WHAT DO MY SCORES MEAN?

When reviewing their intellectual humility reports, most people wonder

whether their scores are “good.” If you scored above average on all
four sub-scores of I.H., that’s a great sign! (Or it’s a sign that you
weren’t being honest with yourself in order to look good on the test!)

However—if you scored higher on “Willingness to Revise Viewpoints”

than you did other measures—or if any of your scenario scores were
lower than your general scores—this indicates that you think you have
more intellectual humility than you do in practice. The other three
sub-scores technically lead to Willingness to Revise Viewpoints. So to
actually improve your I.H., you’ll want to focus on improving any
specific elements in which you scored lowest, even if you scored
above average.

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SO HOW DO I IMPROVE?

Research says that even people who are generally high in intellectual humility
will have areas of their lives where they have a harder time with it. The way to
overcome this is to master specific habits for increasing respect for other
viewpoints, overcoming overconfidence, and controlling your ego. There are
simple ways to make situational improvements, and longer-term habits that
you can build over time to truly improve each. Here’s what we recommend:

Get the book behind this study! Explore the principles of intellectual
humility, and how to start developing it and other character strengths:
Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart

Or check out the online training course for building the habits of
intellectual humility, plus other crucial collaboration skills:
https://snow.academy/dreamteams

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If this was interesting or useful to you, we encourage you to
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If this was especially intriguing or useful, check out our Team

Potential Assessment, which builds on this research from
Dream Teams and generates a 20-page report on the biggest
opportunities or concerns within the teams your working on:
https://snow.academy/team-assessment

And for more on how intellectual humility fits in with other

character traits, and virtues like Wisdom, check out:
https://www.shanesnow.com/articles/values