I was once asked in a consulting interview why my responses to an optimization case study were so dispassionate and rational. I didn't get an offer but one of t

I was once asked in a consulting interview why my responses to an optimization case study were so dispassionate and rational. I didn't get an offer but one of the interviewers later thanked me for not leaving straightaway. Edit: He had used 'baritone and coldly logical', I think.