Can you please rewrite this in your own words: Quantitative synthesis (meta-analysis) and group judgment methods give us ways to summarize current states of knowledge and sometimes to predict the future. Similarly, cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) offer ways of introducing costs and economics into these assessments.

Thanks to the advances in quantitative synthesis -which has to do with analysis of meta data-, and group judgement methods, there are new methods available to us to make a conclusive summary of available knowledge and sometimes using such data to accurately predict the future.

Other methods such as cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) help to introduce the economics side of such research.

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war