There may be some dumb people out there misinterpreting the stat, but there are also an incredible number of people &quot;straw-manning&quot; the ENTIRE opposition as glib.<p>For example, I&#x27;ve seen people cite the White House page as &quot;fallen to the delusion&quot;, when in fact it is quite explicit:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;issues&#x2F;equal-pay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;issues&#x2F;equal-pay</a><p>&gt; <i>In 2014, the typical woman working full-time all year in the United States earned only 79 percent of what the typical man earned working full-time all year. Phrased differently, she earned 79 cents for every dollar that he earned. The pay gap is even greater for African-American and Latina women, with African-American women earning 64 cents and Latina women earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a white non-Hispanic man. Decades of research shows that no matter how you evaluate the data, there remains a pay gap — even after factoring in the kind of work people do, or qualifications such as education and experience — and there is good evidence that discrimination contributes to the persistent pay disparity between men and women. In other words, pay discrimination is a real and persistent problem that continues to shortchange American women and their families.</i><p>There is absolutely no lie or imprecision there. It is a common rhetorical trick to tar your entire opposition as idiots. The people claiming that the pay gap is a &quot;myth&quot; are just as just as zealot-like as the people misinterpreting the 77c figure.