Originally Posted by leefnaspleaf

You'd think people so knowledgeable about music would recognize that meter is a fairly abstract concept which serves the sole purpose of helping multiple performers think about the phrasing in the same way and can thus be described in a number of different, but equally accurate ways. You can even make a very good argument that, in practice, you only have meters of 2 and 3.

In fact, it's obvious to me that this is why a math teacher would assign this type of problem for fun to begin with, and IMO the more sure you are about the meter of a song like this, the more you're kind of an idiot.