Not clear definition in Wasserman book

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I'm reading the book: All of statistics, by Wasserman, and I think the author wasn't very clear in the definition of the Wald's test on page 153:

10.3 Definition. The Wald Test

Consider testing

$H_0:\theta = \theta_0\ \text{versus}\ H_1 : \theta = \theta_ 0$

Assume that $\hat{\theta}\ \text{is asymptotically Normal:}$

$\frac{\hat\theta-\theta_0}{\hat {se}}\xrightarrow{(d)} \mathcal N(0,1)$

The size $\alpha$ Wald test is: reject $H_0$ when $|W|>z_{\alpha/2}$ where

$W=\frac{\hat{\theta}-\theta_0}{\hat{se}}$

The author shouldn't have write:

10.3 Definition. The Wald Test

Consider testing

$H_0:\theta = \theta_0\ \text{versus}\ H_1 : \theta = \theta_ 0$

If $H_0$ is true, assume that $\hat{\theta}\ \text{is asymptotically Normal:}$

$\frac{\hat\theta-\theta_0}{\hat {se}}\xrightarrow{(d)} \mathcal N(0,1)$

The size $\alpha$ Wald test is: reject $H_0$ when $|W|>z_{\alpha/2}$ where

$W=\frac{\hat{\theta}-\theta_0}{\hat{se}}$

I'm a little confused