@dreamwolf If the only reason you dropped your professor’s name was to tell me where you got the statistic, there shouldn’t have been two sentences between his name and you mentioning him as the source. Given the way your post is written, it looks like you are telling me who your teacher was as if it should matter. This impression is magnified by the wording of your fourth sentence, which implies that Prof. Miller is less likely than someone else to “throw a statistic with out sic having reliable data backing him up.”
I will also note that I explicitly said that it doesn’t matter whether your professor was famous or not. Repeating my comment as if I didn’t already said it reinforces the impression that you are arrogant and not bothering to read everyone else’s comments in a constructive manner. If this is how you generally react to contrary information, I am not surprised that you feel superior for managing to get through a basic astronomy course.
As for the term “teacher,” it does not mean what you think it does. All professors are teachers, and “professor” is the proper term for primary and secondary educators in certain countries (I am assuming we are not trying to be ethnocentric here). I teach at a university, but I have no problem being referred to as a teacher rather than as a professor. “Teacher” is not a derogatory term, and it says something about you that you think it is.
As for 1% being an inflation, I most certainly think so. As I said, the number of people who understand the universe is 0 (and so the percentage of the population that understands the universe is 0%). You might understand some basic astronomy—and good for you, that’s probably more than most people know—but that is not the same as understanding the universe. The point people have been trying to make to you is that it comes across as exceedingly arrogant of you to claim to be “part of the 1% of the world that understands how the universe works” when what you understand is some basic astronomy.
P.S. I recommend learning how to deal with constructive criticism.