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.
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.
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.