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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.

Statement: Critics also declare 1997--dominated by the Spice Girls--as the year of the woman in  Never in pop history have female singers been quite so aggressively, shrewdly marketed on the basis of gender alone (Karen Schoemer, Newsweek ). Choices: 1. The Spice Girls have made more money than any female group in history. 2. Critics declared 1997 as the year of the woman thanks to the Spice Girls. 3. The Spice Girls were more popular than the Backstreet Boys in 1990. 
Output:
1