That just tells us that more people use the code than star the repo. I don’t think that’d be a surprise to anyone. The claim was that more people clone and copy code from the repo than the ones who star it, which is a different matter from the number of users.
Thank you for clarifying. I meant use. The number of clones and the number of file/page views are proxies for that. So is the number of installs via pip, conda, and other Python package management systems, in this case. I updated my comment to reflect as much.
By checking the usage statistics on that server, you can get an idea how many users there are, and typically it's far higher than the number of stars.