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Misused honorary authorship is no excuse for quantifying the unquantifiable
- Correspondence to Dr Murray J Dyck, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia,m.dyck{at}griffith.edu.au
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Misused honorary authorship is no excuse for quantifying the unquantifiable
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- Received August 9, 2012
- Accepted August 10, 2012
- First published September 6, 2012.
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April 27, 2016
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