It isn’t what I’m looking for as I’m not trying to declare a winner. That may come later in the process, but this far it’s more about separating the chaff from the wheat. Is it worth working with, is it in focus, or is someone important in the picture perhaps blinking? Does that kid have an odd grin through all the pictures, or are there exceptions? And so on.
Plus, if I can reduce the pile of pictures into something manageable I’m happy to let others pick their favorites.
So the “this or that” thinking of the culling mode doesn’t suit that kind of process.