Do you look up answers to questions in order to answer?

I do look up the answers to factual questions, but rely on my own experiences and common sense when question askers want advice or ideas on solving a problem.

I think the person could look up the answers themselves and if a person asks something so patently easy to find as the capital of Nigeria, I usually pass those questions up. But I often do answer things that can be looked up by the asker and I enjoy learning about many subjects as I look for those answers.

I doubt that most of the people who ask questions here are researching the base of knowledge that exists among Yahoo! Answers users. If a person did state that, I wouldn't look up the answer to the question. It wouldn't be helpful to him or her, would it?

I'm kind of an information junkie, I guess. I like learning about things and this is a good way to do so. It becomes kind of an Information Scavenger Hunt.

Good question, by the way!

I think people who ask questions like your example are kids doing homework and are too lazy or too silly to look up the answer which is ridiculous because by the time they typed the question, they would have found the answer if they had googled it.

I look up information to back my answer. Maybe someone is asking about a specific set of symptoms on a body part, or with their cat or dog. I look up the information and provide the person the link.

I don't answer the basic knowledge questions. It's not worth the two points to me.

Sometimes if the question asked is of interest to me, I'll look it up, and by the time I return to Yahoo answers, it may already be answered, and if I can't add anything of signficance to the answer, then I don't bother. But knowledge is an incredible thing to have. Who cares about the points, it's not like money in the bank; but knowledge on the other hand, that's something to have!

From the standpoint of this forum, clearly web searches and research are allowed and even encouraged. Otherwise there would not be a "source" box in the answer page. This entire format is an exercise in discourse, learning, humor, and the statement of the obvious. It's all here from the sublime to the ridiculous. It is to be taken as lightly or as seriously as the question itself implies.

I am the type of person that if I do not know an answer I do research because I want to make sure that I have all of the information I need in order to provide a good answer.

I think the person asking the question isn't being lazy, I think that that person is just posting questions for the sake of it. I answer from the top of my head and if especially of a personal interest.

Looking the other answers first and then answering without knowing just what you read is like cheating...

I just read the beging of each answer to make sure my answer isn't already written.. If it's not, I put down my thoughts, but if it is then you can't offer anything by answering...

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a few times i have looked the answers up but most of the time no i only answer the ones i know or really have to give a smart *** answer to

sometimes i will look it up to learn something and to get points and to help the person out