Though he never said as much, Maxwell Davies seemed to believe that if the constructive basis of a piece of music was strict enough, comprehension on the part of the listener would be guaranteed.
I can actually comprehend more than I can speak, and my comprehension is good enough to know that many of the things I'm saying in a meeting aren't being translated properly since some ideas just don't translate well.
"or to challenge the interpretation of the various data series originators" – Yes, maybe, possibly when enough comprehension is gained.
If a student's reading comprehension isn't strong enough to make sense of the instructions, test-prep is probably not going to turn him into a star.
Indeed, it has been shown that comprehension relies on a "good enough" representation rather than on the precise analysis of each word (Christianson, Hollingworth, Halliwell, & Ferreira, 2001; Ferreira, Bailey, & Ferraro, 2002; Sturt, Sanford, Stewart, & Dawydiak, 2004).
When my first-grade teacher reported that I could read "fluently enough, but without much comprehension," she took it up with the school.
A small frequency bandwidth is enough to maintain speech comprehension as in telephone transmission, where the bandwidth used is [300 to 3000 Hz] [9].
There was nothing stronger than lemonade and strange ideas fueling a conversation between a pair of lapsed physics majors and a health and psychology writer, but that was enough to cause a perfect comprehension of the cosmos to elude us.
Even though the intent of the help notes was facilitating the subjects' understanding regarding the questions, they might not have been enough to allow for correct comprehension.
An educational tool can improve comprehension, but it in itself is not enough to satisfy that the information is understood.
