Poverty Hurts

` Having money is not everything, but it relieves stress`

This article left out an important fact: the measurement of stress. We can easily imagine how the experimenters measured the pain of subjects in the hot-water test. All they had to do was ask the subjects to rate their pain on a scale of 1-10. But how did they measure psychological distress? The sentence in the article reads as follows: "...thinking about expenses and spending???lack of money in general???increased feelings of distress, especially for those who were excluded by their social group." This sentence can't be interpreted if we don't know how the experiementers came to the conclusion that lack of money "increased feelings of distress."