Your Project Team Reads a Guideline That Makes Recommendations and Provides

Your project team reads a guideline that makes recommendations and provides references for the recommendations, but provides no information about how the recommendations were produced. Which statement best describes the degree of confidence your team should have in the recommendations?

A) If the recommendations are clear and specific and citations are provided, your project team should have confidence in them.
B) If the recommendations resonate with the views of those in your agency, your project team should have confidence in them.
C) The guidelines should be judged as having questionable credibility unless the producer provides access to another document or resource regarding the production process.
D) If the authors indicate that a consensus conference was held to produce the guideline, your project team should have confidence in them.