How come I only get a straight answer when I ask a math question?

Question

Everything else is just I think this or I believe this. What is it about math questions that make the answers only right or wrong?

Answer 1

All people are saying is, that to the best of their knowledge, they believe that the answer they gave you is right.

Answer 2

It probably lays in the fact that math cannot calculate gaieties or other frivolities. Which leads to straight answers almost exclusively.

Then again if you dwindle in higher maths and have to deal with infinity and other unimaginable material to calculate or equate with, math shows much flexibility and ingenuity and requires more creativity than simple right and wrong.

Just imagine how you would make an equation for an instanteneity proposal. Which means that in no time, you move from point x to point y and all you really see is a change in values without a deductible cause. Which leaves you without a right or wrong but just an AS IS that you have to accept as such. In the reality of every day we hardly ever work with instanteneity. But in our minds we can hop from memory to memory and see our memories in a different light, quite instantaneously. It's there where maths become almost as much fun as another good joke or other pleasantries.

Answer 3

Because with math there is a right answer. In answering some questions people feel inclined to offer an opinion or advice instead of knowledge.

Answer 4

DO YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT REALLY GETS MY GOAT?

People who can't count! I know a few people who can't even count to ten. Well, I have a solution for them. Count to eight and then add two. Simple solution.

And people who must use their fingers to add something as simple as five and three. The answer of course is, let me see . . . oh shoot, I just remember something . . . I lost three of my fingers working the lathe. Well, I better remove my shoes and use my toes. Oh ****, I had lost both my legs trying to fix the muffler on my car with a broken jack . . . I almost forgot about that one. Right now, I don't have a leg to stand on. I better sit down.

No, really I'm considered a Human Calculator and by all accounts if I took five apples from nine apples, I'd have five apples. And a pie to bake.

You know folks, you can count on me. But not on my head. I got a boomp.

"A what?"

A boomph!"

Answer 5

I think this is the case due to our comfort in quantification. Numbers are straight forward, and have no moral value behind them. However, I beg to differ in your speculation. What about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What about imperialism or terrorism? We walk on very thin ice when we try to quantify these things. Sure, calculative logic helps us to analyze our reasoning, but it can never answer moral, ethical questions.

Answer 6

Because math is a so-called hard science, and requires only hard, concise solutions; no other explanations or justification is needed, as they are with soft sciences like psychology, sociology and political science. In those sciences, there are no real, indisputable formulas to guide us, so opinions and ideas are valid. Not so in math.

Answer 7

because everything else is a subjective opinion of the answering person
most math problems only have one way to do them.

Answer 8

Math is an exact science (supposedly ;)). It does seem to be the only place where you truly can find right or wrong answers...

Answer 9

Logical science has to classify a answer as right or wrong.
Subjective things are at times a matter of belief.

Answer 10

logic. If you ask in terms boolean you may obtain different results. You can obtain true od false answers by resticting to facts and posing questions that promote yes or no answers.