text: The next reason people seek out other's opinions is they want something to compare their answer or another answer to. Comparing answers and opinions can give you insight on a topic or idea and give you a sence of whats wrong and whats right. Because say you have one opinion/answer and compare them, you can see what matches the other in both answers and from that can decide what is the best choice. Most people like to list the pros and cons out and compare and do stuff like that and it does help and it easy to do. This is why people seek for opinions to compare.