I agree with everything you're saying up to the final sentence. I find these displays distasteful because I think humans are worth more than feathers or muscles

I agree with everything you're saying up to the final sentence. I find these displays distasteful because I think humans are worth more than feathers or muscles or money. But that's only to say that the rituals have become more sophisticated with language. [edit: More precisely what I mean is that the rituals performed with just feathers and money look stupid to me; more complicated rituals have taken their place and are usually intended to show survival traits that apply to more modern circumstances.] [edit 2; by feathers I mean everything from clothes to Botox to Ferraris.] My basic point was that the questionnaire is just one more recent iteration of the same thing. If nature intended DJs and record collections, there's no reason nature couldn't intend questionnaires.