These questions are way more awkward than just asking what you're surreptitiously trying to discover.

"Do you prefer the people in your life to be simple or complex?"

That sounds really weird to me.

A user generated question on OkCupid:
"If you were to be eaten by cannibal, how would you like to be prepaired?"

After reading the earlier spelling/grammar correlation, I gather the person is "more religious," and that I am "less religious" because the mistake annoys me, and also that if I were to be eaten by a cannibal, the person with whom I would like to be prepaired would be Daniel Craig.

I sure am looking forward to what the trolls have to say about this.

I love that "not serious Buddhists" have the best writing proficiency.

I just know your linking to that xkcd comic makes me all hot and bothered.

Okay, asking if you like simple or complex people might be awkward but I think it would be very easy to slip the taste of beer and spelling and grammar into a first date conversation.

I want to know what the odds of sex on the first date are if your date doesn't like the taste of beer.

I agree with 1. Using a proxy variable when the variable of interest is accessible is not only stupid and annoying: it's misleading. As the data shows, these correlations are not nearly strong enough to be at all confident about your conclusions.

Just ask! Damn you, OkTrends, for giving the cautious and "polite" a crutch to avoid actually communicating.

It seems like the taste of beer question merely separates the teetotaler prudes from everyone else. I've only ever had a single one night stand my entire life, but I'd still answer "yes" to the having sex on the first date question. I consider it as an option if I have a strong and immediate connection/attraction to someone, but that kind of attraction happens very rarely for me.

I dearly love xkcd, but the correlation/causation cartoon was a major fail. Anyone who has ever done a real-world scientific study knows that observational data is nearly always horribly contaminated by confounding factors. And even if it weren't, the direction of causality is not clear: do bad spelling skills encourage people to become religious or does religiosity enourage the neglect of spelling skills?

Well, if you're on a date and they start asking you all these off the wall question, better be looking for a passive-aggressive 'cause you got yourself one.