Wendy C. Higgins is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. Her primary research interests are metascience, measurement validity and the philosophy of measurement.

Wendy C. Higgins
Ph.D. candidate
Macquarie University
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