You make blanket recommendations with a complete lack of context?

Exploring the implications of alternative assumptions is likely to lead to better policy than making a single blanket recommendation.

Any blanket recommendation on skill mix is a waste of time.'

And of course, the Thrifty Millionaire cannot possibly issue blanket recommendations for individual companies or individuals.

But Dr. Kramer was also cautious about offering a blanket recommendation that everyone 50 and older have the test.

Dr. Eddy said women should decide for themselves whether routine mammograms are worthwhile and that it is impossible to make blanket recommendations.

"We wanted, frankly, to get the word out to the public before any blanket recommendation that might panic people," a spokesman for Dr. Axelrod said.

As a result, farmers are rightly cautious about adopting blanket recommendations, and they do their own on-farm testing to check these recommendations out.

Experts like the nabobs at the American College of Sports Medicine no longer make blanket recommendations; each person's physique is too singular.

Knowledge about air duct cleaning is in its early stages, so a blanket recommendation cannot be offered as to whether you should have your air ducts in your home cleaned.

Dr. Rifkind said that when the heart institute's cholesterol education panel tried to decide what to recommend to old people with high cholesterol levels, "they did not come up with a blanket recommendation."

With all such calculations of probabilities open to challenge, the panel shied away from a blanket recommendation that all women in their 40's have mammograms, as is universally advised for women 50 and older.

He urged his supporters to defeat several candidates of the governing coalition, but stopped short of a blanket recommendation that party members vote for the Socialists, led by Lionel Jospin, and their allies, theCommunists.

But Dr. Turek added that while he would continue with ICSI for those who want it, he would not give a blanket recommendation to everything that becomes technologically possible just because there is a market for it.

Blanket recommendations to lower saturated fat were criticized at a 2010 conference debate of the American Dietetic Association for focusing too narrowly on reducing saturated fats rather than emphasizing increased consumption of healthy fats and unrefined carbohydrates.

Dr. Steven E. Ambrose, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Rush Medical College in Chicago, agreed that the findings were insufficient to justify a blanket recommendation to give low doses of aspirin to all women during their first pregnancy.

Within its blanket recommendation for general vaccination in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who began recommending the influenza vaccine to health care workers in 1981, emphasizes to clinicians the special urgency of vaccination for members of certain vulnerable groups, and their caregivers: