“You’ll Be Less Stressed if You Check Your Email Less Frequently,” is the title of an article recently published in the “Science of Us” section of the online magazine, "nymag.com." The article presents the findings of a recently published study featured in Computers in Human Behaviors, on the relationship between email checking and stress. In the article, the author gives a condensed and easy to understand description of the original study’s method, result, conclusion and even some extraneous factors that may have contributed to study’s findings. After stating the source of its information, the article promptly goes on to describe the experiment as follows: -held over the course of two weeks -participants assigned to one of two conditions: email application and notification off and check email three times a day or email application and notification on and check email as often as possible -each group participated in each condition once: one week of limited email checking followed by one week of unlimited email checking or vice versa -both groups completed surveys on how often they checked their email, their professed stress and productivity level The information provided shows that the experiment employed a within –subjects, single factor, two levels design with complete counterbalancing. A single independent variable (amount of email checking) was assessed where all the participants took part in each of the two conditions, once. Moreover, the independent variable of the study was a manipulated variable as the conditions (limited versus unlimited email checking) were manipulated in order to acquire results. The dependent variable in this study was the stress level of the participants as determined by the surveys they filled out at the end of the day or week during the experiment. While the original article goes into details about the type of surveys and the times/days and reasons behind the different surveys that were