Professionals are inclined to think of things in the world as having properties that can be measured, hot or cold, for example, or, networks of things influencing properties of their neighbors, warming or cooling, by analogy. We can trace these differences to their education, specifically the degree that their disciplines embraced calculus.
Research ethnographers at Intel studied how physicians might use electronic health records. The found diagnosis and prescription depended largely on current measurements, say blood sugar levels, with little interest in levels measured over time presented as a graph with highs and lows and slopes in between. A user-centered design approach would say, give the user what they will use. A better question is why do they prefer less information over more?
Newton and Leibniz changed science when they codified the algebraic treatment of change. This spawned calculus and eventually differential equations, subjects studied as fundamental to engineering disciplines but less so the life sciences.
Alan Kay explains, In order to be completely enfranchised in the 21st century, it will be very important for children to get fluent in the three central forms of thinking that are now in use: "stories," "logical arguments," and "systems dynamics." See Three Ways We Must Think
The presence or absence of a background in calculus divides professionals' preference for logical vs. systems thinking. Is their concern more about what has become of a thing or how it came to be that thing. Hot or heating?