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In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
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Statement: But this caveat has a  The prospect of future punishments gives you an incentive to investigate the corporation's history before you buy, which improves the chance that bad behavior can be uncovered while the actual perpetrators can still be punished. Choices: 1. CEOs often avoid punishment by selling their businesses. 2. The prospect of punishment won't encourage research into the history of a corporation. 3. Threats of punishment encourage you to research companies before purchase.
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1


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Statement: Yet, in public discussion of youthful suicide, we're often unwilling to trace it to such causes and try to place blame elsewhere--on television, music, movies. Choices: 1. Youthful suicide is a topic discussed in public. 2. No youths ever committed suicide and it will stay that way. 3. There are other reasons to blame for youthful suicide, besides media.
answer:
3


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Statement: Joseph D. Harbaugh, dean of the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is likewise concerned about his graduates' debt burdens. Choices: 1. The students have all paid off their debts. 2. The student's generally have a lot of debt at graduation. 3. The dean is worried about the student debt.
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2