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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Question: Statement: that he's written yeah yeah uh i think his name was Bachman he wrote under the name of Bachman Choices: 1. He prefers to use his real name rather than the name Bachman. 2. He thought the name Bachman was a fitting name for the author of his work. 3. He utilized a pen-name when he wrote.

Answer: 2


Question: Statement: And here's another ray of  De Long and Lang's results were published in the prestigious Journal of Political Economy , so they're probably wrong to begin with. Choices: 1. De Long and Lang have been working together for five years. 2. Lang's findings appeared in the Journal of Political Economy. 3. The Journal of Political Economy refused to publish Lang's results.

Answer: 1


Question: Statement: The basic tool of statistical social science in general, and of The Bell Curve in particular, is regression analysis, a technique used to assign weights to various factors (called independent variables) in determining a final outcome (called the dependent variable). Choices: 1. Regression analysis is one of the basic statistical tools. 2. Regression analysis is the most well known statistical tool. 3. The Bell Curve has nothing to do with statistics.

Answer:
2