Currently Unknown
December 2011
20 posts
November 2011
42 posts
http://duke.edu/~dandan/Papers/meaning.pdf
In our second experiment, we replicate the result with a physical task of a different nature and additionally examine how meaning affects the relationship between productivity and labor supply.
The subjects were male undergraduates at Harvard University, recruited via posters around the university. Each subject participated in the experiment alone, without the presence of other subjects. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of the two conditions, Meaningful (N= 20) and Sisyphus (N= 20), and were unaware of the other condition. The procedure was similar to that used in Experiment 1. In each of the two conditions, subjects received payments for assembling Bionicle Lego models according to a declining unit wage schedule. Each Bionicle consisted of 40 separate pieces, with written instructions on how to assemble them into a figure. There was only one way to combine the pieces, and no subject had trouble following the assembly instructions.
The mean time to build the first Bionicle was around 10 min. Before deciding whether to build each Bionicle, the subjects were told how much they had earned up to that point and how much they would earn for making another Bionicle. The subjects were paid $2.00 for the first Bionicle, $1.89 (11¢ less) for the second one, and so on linearly. For the 20th, as well as for any subsequent Bionicles, they received $0.02. The only decision the subjects made was when to stop making Bionicles. At that point, they were paid and the experimental session was over. During the experiment, we measured how long it took each subject to build each Bionicle. The instructions are provided in Appendix B of the Supplementary material.
I just found a socioeconomic study involving Bionicle. I am such a goddamn college student.
Fic scrap: Bionicle/Doctor Who (~2100 words, Eleven, Kiina)
Conclusion to a hypothetical fic with 11 on Spherus Magna.
So today this happened
“Hmm, I think I’m inspired to write some Tahu/Gali fluff.
Wait, I can’t do that, I’m not up-to-date on the canon. Oh shit, what if I mess up their personalities or get a plot detail wrong!?”
And this is why I can’t have fandom anymore.
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(how many times have I reblogged this now)
BABBY, COME HERE AND LET ME HOLD YOU…
Here are the two in question.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6379112/1/Father_and_Son
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6734971/1/Visitors
Also, I love your artwork!
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BABBY, COME HERE AND LET ME HOLD YOU…
SLKDGHJLDKJ THE ENDING. ALL MY CRYS. ಥ___ಥ
OMIGOSH YOU NEED TO READ THE BOOKS. LIKE RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE SO ~FABULOUS~ AND UNINTENTIONALLY FULL OF CRACK.
ahh also there was another good Nuju and Matoro fic where all the Turagas turn back into Toa Metru once every year, and Matoro finds out and has to keep it a secret. (he’s a matoran in this one) maybe you have read it? I forget what it was called. ):
Where are all these great bionicle fics Q A Q Someone tell me please, all I can find is “LOL TOA PLUS HUMANS” and crappy songfics
I will try and put up a list of fic reccommendations!! Although, I tend to skim by anything that isn’t Tahu/Gali so that might be a bit problematic…
fsgdfdgdsfgds Absolutely no objections to that. Godspeed.
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Reading Bionicle fics where Nuju and Matoro have a father-son relationship. That also cover the big sacrifice.
Why wasn’t I active in this fandom in 2007, AT LEAST THEN I WOULD HAVE HAD A SUPPORT NETWORK
BABBY, COME HERE AND LET ME HOLD YOU…
SLKDGHJLDKJ THE ENDING. ALL MY CRYS. ಥ___ಥ
OMIGOSH YOU NEED TO READ THE BOOKS. LIKE RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE SO ~FABULOUS~ AND UNINTENTIONALLY FULL OF CRACK.
ahh also there was another good Nuju and Matoro fic where all the Turagas turn back into Toa Metru once every year, and Matoro finds out and has to keep it a secret. (he’s a matoran in this one) maybe you have read it? I forget what it was called. ):
Where are all these great bionicle fics Q A Q Someone tell me please, all I can find is “LOL TOA PLUS HUMANS” and crappy songfics
I know the feeling, amigo. I mostly found these by chance (since they were on the front page of ff.net). I respect people who write “toa plus humans” fics and/or humanized AU, but there really needs to be more fic that’s just… set in the verse, you know? And to be honest I usually just scroll past the lyrics of songfics. Someone needs to stand up and write some quality Bionicle fic! AND THAT PERSON WILL BE ME oh hello college and real life responsibilities, where did you come from
