Aja Louise Murray
Ph.D. Student
Centre for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh
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Comparing autism traits
There is usually an implicit assumption that autism tests measure the same traits in the same way across individuals with and without a clinical diagnosis of the disorder. But that may not be the case, say Aja Louise Murray and Tom Booth.
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