People with intellectual disability are often defined as a vulnerable group. The feminist philosopher Jackie Scully argues that vulnerability is often associated with qualities such as immaturity, helplessness, victimhood, passivity and so forth. As research is a social activity, the qualities associated with vulnerability affect researchers’ decisions about who to include and exclude from their research project as well as influencing their interpretations of the research participants’ answers, behaviour and actions. This may result in excluding people with intellectual disability from research or that their ways of being becomes interpreted as mere symptoms of their diagnosis rather than subjective opinions and experiences.

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关于在智障人士研究中使用脆弱性概念的担忧

智障人士通常被定义为弱势群体。女权主义哲学家杰基·斯卡利（Jackie Scully）认为，脆弱性通常与不成熟、无助、受害、被动等品质相关联。由于研究是一项社会活动，与脆弱性相关的品质会影响研究人员关于在其研究项目中包括和排除谁的决定，以及影响他们对研究参与者的答案、行为和行动的解释。这可能导致智障人士被排除在研究之外，或者他们的存在方式被解释为仅仅是诊断的症状，而不是主观意见和经验。