Re:Predictions are hard (Score 2, Interesting)

Often I find it's a difference in personality type. Using the Keirsey temperment sorter you see where people are separated by how they perceive the world. One aspect of personality is how you perceive the world to be, either in concrete or possible terms. Objectively the two are not entirely opposite, it's just in how the world is organized. One views their surroundings as possibilities, the other as actualities. The actual view is the same, but the actions and course determined is different. ie. If you're calm and confident when everyone aroudn you is running around in a *BLIND* panic... it's just as likely you can see something they can't