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The purpose of a question is for learning to take place, not for testing to take place.

We need to stop chopping wood and sharpen our ax.

Never do for participants what they can do for themselves.

All of which suggests that close to 300,000 people could have just seen their personal, non-Yahoo e-mail accounts compromised as well as their Yahoo accounts.

To be on the safe side, if you have a Yahoo ID, you should assume it's no longer secure and change its password. (I just did, and I've never visited Yahoo's contributor-network site until today.) Yahoo is also changing the passwords of affected users. You should, however, also change other passwords if: You've used the same password for any other major service -- particularly for sensitive accounts such as banking, investing, or e-mail. You've ever signed into Yahoo or Associated Content with a non-Yahoo e-mail address.

In the image below, you can see the different brain activities for various tasks that the brain switches between. It jumps back and forth as you focus on each task for a few seconds at a time:

What's more is that Clifford Nass, a researcher at Stanford assumed that those who multitask heavily will nonetheless develop some other outstanding skills. He thought that they will be amazing at 1. filtering information, 2. being very fast at switching between the tasks and 3. keeping a high working memory. He found that none of these 3 points are true: We were absolutely shocked. We all lost our bets. It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. People who multitask a lot are in fact a lot worse at filtering irrelevant information and also perform significantly worse at switching between task, compared to singletaskers.

Quick last fact: listening to music whilst working isn't multitasking