> Why ask others to guess what your motivations are if you can instead tell us? Because directly stating "the authors of this paper misunderstood the purpose o

> Why ask others to guess what your motivations are if you can instead tell us? Because directly stating "the authors of this paper misunderstood the purpose of pay transparency: it doesn't matter what the average pay becomes, as the goal was to reduce pay disparity" is a more forceful statement that makes more assumptions and simply isn't as friendly as asking it in the form of a question (which might be taken as a socratic dialog, but that also feels more friendly to me than a lecture).