I call complete BS on the 1% number, too, for various reasons. Just imagine if 1% of people actually stuttered. Then stuttering would be commonplace and not a big deal at all. Reality is that stuttering is like a fringe topic in society, to the point that when some people encounter someone who stutters that they genuinely don’t know how to react and may laugh out loud. If 1% of the population stuttered, a lot more money would be going into trying to find a solution. The easiest way to put an end to this silly statistic would be to do surveys at high schools or universities. A lot of high schools have more than 1000 students. Just send out an email to all students and ask the basic question. Or universities with 40,000+ student bodies. I bet it’s more like 1 in 1000, if that. What I sometimes find hilarious is when I come across a person who may repeat one word twice, and then they pause and look at themselves like they were suddenly possessed by an alien being that made them *gasp* repeat ONE word, as if that is something that NEVER happened to them before in their entire life. Some people are sooooooo fluent that even the repetition of one word completely shocks them to their core. And then there’s me….. The diversity of humanity is at times quite bemusing.