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A spike is not automatically a verdict
The meeting wants a villain. The sheet usually offers a range and one loud hour.
When a bar jumps, a room leans forward. Someone names a person, a supplier, a damper. I draw the scale large enough that a single hour can look like a cliff. That is why the copies in a briefing include the scale in words, not only as a tiny line.
A spike that sits on a dated mark with a witness — “truck late, line held” — is a story. A spike with no mark is a hole wearing a costume. I will not let a findings letter call the costume a person.
Variance across a window is often the useful drawing: how wide the ordinary days sit, and whether the claim even mentioned a width. Many handover sentences quote a single number as if a plant were a tuning fork. Modules in Imereti weather, or on mixed shifts, live in a band. If the claim had no band, the chart’s first job is to show that the claim was the wrong shape.
I refuse chart decoration that softens a thin sample: gradients, rounded peaks, a line that glides over a missing Wednesday. Pencil on a printed sheet is allowed. Smoke is not.