Many are outdated, so it is taking weeks, in some cases maybe months, for the states to process and get this going.

很多都已经过时了，所以各州需要几个星期，有些州甚至需要几个月的时间来处理这个问题。

You also then introduce accountability and raise people's involvement with the taxpaying process and the federal or state allocation process.

然后，您还可以引入问责制并提高人们对纳税流程以及联邦或州分配流程的参与度。

You don't only have the lag for getting a test result, but then you have a lag when the state process that...processes that test result.

所以，不仅我们获取测试结果会有延迟，该州在处理测试结果上也会有延迟。

So you have to define your concepts, which becomes even more important when you get to the next part of the research process: Stating a hypothesis – a statement of a possible relationship between two variables.

所以你必须定义你的概念，当你进入研究过程的下一部分时， 这变得更加重要：陈述一个假设 - 两个变量之间可能关系的陈述。