The phrase "favored hypothesis" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the hypothesis that is most likely, or favored, by a particular group of people or individuals. For example, "The favored hypothesis is that humans evolved from apes."
This reminds us that there is a corresponding challenge to the currently favored hypothesis of chondrule fomation due to frictional heating with gas after passing a shock front.
Thus, one currently favored hypothesis is that BicD is a structural protein required for dynein localization.
Lineage sorting is currently the favored hypothesis to explain the mosaic of the primate genomes [ 51, 52].
More attention to alternative hypotheses and to testing these against the favored hypothesis might in the end provide more convincing support for the latter.
This conclusion directly challenges the currently favored hypothesis and illustrates that future studies that are aimed at understanding mechanisms of disuse atrophy should be focused on defining the mTOR-independent mechanism.
The currently favored hypothesis for how wavefront velocity is regulated involves gradients of Wnt, fibroblast growth factor (Fgf) and retinoic acid (RA) spanning the PSM (reviewed by Aulehla and Pourquié, 2010).
Therefore, parsimony favors Hypothesis 2, although our results do not reject Hypothesis 3, and more experiments are required to distinguish between these two possibilities.
We therefore favor hypothesis (b), with a very old transfer to an ancestral lepidopteran, and a second transfer to an ancestral mite.
If sample sizes were too small the event results would lack sufficient statistical power in order to detect meaningful differences (beyond the play of chance) between effect estimates and thus would erroneously favor hypothesis H2.
The observed rapid response to corticosteroids and immunosuppressants also favored this hypothesis.
Pharyngeal pH recording that demonstrated micro-aspiration of gastric contents into the pharynx favored this hypothesis [ 15].
