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First time I've heard of it. Where I come from it's the other way around. Salting before tasting just means you generally like more salt than most and the host couldn't have predicted that. Salting afterwards is a (faux pas) critique.

Or wore a yarmaluke.

Seriously though, Ford's test sounds silly. I'm sure he had some kind of justification for it, but I doubt it really did a good job of screening out who would and wouldn't be a good employee.

Dogma vs. Data!

Do you want to hire someone that does things 'because that's what they always do', or because they collected data and acted appropriately?

I'm not saying salt is a good indicator - there are a million other ways you could test it - but I think that's the gist of it.

Isn't hiring based on a "salt test," uh, dogma?

touche ;)

The "salt test" is a popular and older than I am story\method, but why the name drop of Henry Ford? So far as I can tell, the evidence tying it to him is non-existent, just like all the other people\groups you hear it tied to. Regardless, why not let the method stand on it's own, and give up on the name dropping? Bah, rumors...