Arbitrary Variables v. Comprehension

Is this your psych homework?

I should take that as a compliment given my age.

Yeah, Chumley. Do your own homework.

Seriously, I have no idea.

(slinks away)

OK so I'm the first person to fail an IQ test with an observation that arbitrary variables are definitively devoid of discernible underlying influence.

I'm studying for my urine test tomorrow.

Urine luck then; given your present misunderstanding, your upcoming potential success could be no worse.

Understanding (as in comprehension) is everything. Why do you ask?

I would agree with you from an ideal / absolute perspective; but (for example) from the casual example given, to make such a real world pragmatic differentiation may not be so easily accomplished.

I ask because I wonder how you (for example) make such an assessment of others given the obvious (and not so obvious) perceptual constraints we all must live with.

Besides the example in my first post as per
consider whom you would hire / prefer to work with / appreciate more as a friend:

All things being equal the person with superior comprehension or the person with superior memory?

Comprehension. Although a certain amount of memory is required for thought to occur (if your brain can't store information for more than a second, you would have a hard time "thinking" in any normal sense).

In general, I consider memory to be a mechanical process. Comprehension is a much more interesting.

I just asked my wife "how can you tell if someone comprehends something or if they simply have an excellent memory?"

She answered "if they can paraphrase it then they comprehend it."

I said "OK then how do you know they are not simply relying on an excellent command of the English language combined with an excellent memory?"

She said "well then how do you know anything at all?"

I said "your response is akin to the slippery slope logical fallacy"

She said "I'm going to bed."