1.- The four ways to evaluate the strengths and accuracy of your beliefs are:
-Understand that your beliefs shape your reality.
-Pay attention to what you think because it reflects your beliefs.
-Observe the consequences of your actions because they reflect your beliefs and thoughts.
-How is your health lately? Pay atenttion to your body because it expresses the state of your mind.
2.- How does this relate to Critical Thinking?
These concepts are related to critical thinking because they influence the process of information in the mind. A person's beliefs can interfere with the logic of a situation.
A critical thinker knows that he must reject face value reality. He needs to search for its accuracy, facts, credibility and check sources. However, critical thinking invites to have an open mind criteria to understand things. Critical thinkers analyse true facts and beliefs in a conscious and critical way and rejects what makes no sense.
3.- Why is important to understand the different levels of questions?
Taking those concepts into consideration, we need to understand the different levels of questions to answer correctly and with no bias.
For every situation, there is always two sides of the story. This means that only exact science like mathematics is accurately. But in history, social studies or sociology, the critical thinker knows there are different possibilities as ways of thinking and understand reality.
The critical mind always questions everything but is open to any kind of answer.
A good critical thinker will always consider these questions before expressing an answer: Is my thinking clear and accurate? The data that is collected is relevant to the issue at hand? Am I thinking logical? Do I have a wide open perspective?