It's not just as bad; it gives a closer to accurate picture, and it's pretty obnoxious of the mods to change it to be less illuminating. The way it's written now, I thought it was going to be about asking people a nonsensical mathematical question (which still has a correct answer), and seeing how the nonsensical curve-ball affects their answer.
Agreed. When I read the title, I thought, "WTH, what's so hard about picking the number 2? Is this article about how few people know this fact or something?"
Your strategy isn't to pick the lowest prime. It's to pick a prime that less than 5 other people would pick lower than - so you will tend to pick a higher number. The larger the group of pickers the higher you should pick.
