Question

You are writing a report analyzing whether your company should hire a new vendor to provide data-warehousing services. You have found a white paper online that looks promising. How can you best judge the degree to which the authors are unbiased?

Answer 1

Answer:

- Check to see if the authors work as industry-wide consultants or as contractors for specific vendors.

Explanation:

The information sources must be valid and reliable enough to be considered in order to produce an effective report. Thus, the sources are checked to ensure the reliability of their claims so that they could further be used in various documents.

As per the question, the authors' objectivity and impartiality could best be judged by 'checking if the authors work as industry-wide consultants or as contractors for specific vendors'. This examination or assessment would assist in ensuring that the white paper found online offers reliable and trustworthy content and if the authors work for the entire industry and not as consultants for some certain vendors they could be considered worthy enough to be used in the report and deduce the judgment.