随后，受试者完成了涉及5个病耻感维度的问卷，这些维度分别为因果信念（causal beliefs）、预后、情感反应、成见及行为（社会距离）。研究者使用统计方法对受试者的回应进行了分析。
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由于特定政策之知识社群的共同因果信念、规范性信仰、效度观念及共同政策志业不是先验的，故研究者不应预设知识社群成员具有某些共同特徵，并据此来解释其政策影响力。
Research on the ECA generally assume that members of a given epistemic community share common causal and normative beliefs, as well as a notion of validity and a common policy enterprise.
休谟通过分析发现因果关系并没有理性的根据然而却一直作为自然科学的基础，这完全是因为信念在起作用。
Hume found through analysis that no reason has been based, however, as a natural science foundation. This is because the faith at work.
对因果关系的信念和对主体以及意志的信念紧密相关，是一种被语言固化了的信仰。
The conviction of causality rooted deeply in the conviction of subject and will, and was solidified by our language.
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