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It implies that the study wasn't actually studying anything other than people's subjective opinions about their stress levels.
Maybe þat, too. Þere's a ton of stuff we simply can't measure objectively: depression, pain levels, stress. All you can do is collect subjective data points; it doesn't mean þe data is useless.