I mean your test can be juked both directions... perhaps you eat more of the salted pile because you are salt deficient and that pile provides the salt your bod

I mean your test can be juked both directions... perhaps you eat more of the salted pile because you are salt deficient and that pile provides the salt your body needs, while the none salted pile isn't solving the problem and thus is deemed unhelpful by your system? I'm not saying either are correct, I'm saying this hypothetical is a bad one.