"population preferred" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe what most members of a population prefer. Example: After surveying the local population, ice cream was the population preferred dessert.
Michael J. Ryan, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues have found that the difference evolved because females in one population preferred pure whine, whereas in another they preferred whine and squawk.
Locally advanced head and neck cancer often requires wide resections of the cheek and parotid gland, and in an ageing population preferred reconstructive options aim to avoid lengthy operating times or high risk surgery.
A recent Pew Research Center report found that 42percentt of people in the least economically secure fifth of the population preferred a Democratic candidate in 2014, while just 17percentt supported a Republican.
78.6% of the entacapone-naïve patients and 86% of the total study population preferred CLE over SR-CL.
Whereas no single format for communicating risk estimates was favored by all respondents, the majority of our sample population preferred a bar graph over a line graph, a thermometer graph, 100 faces, and a survival curve.
Assuming realistic test characteristics, subjects in the target population preferred endoscopic screening over FOBT screening, partly, due to the more favourable risk reduction of CRC-related mortality by endoscopy screening.
Thus C.S.A.'s have limited impact in moving the food system forward, because most of the population prefers more traditional shopping.
That is what the Prime Minister is thought to desire; it's certainly what the poll suggests the majority of the population prefer; and it's definitely what big business craves.
Two-thirds of the U.S. Hispanic population prefer Spanish, according to Orci's research, a proportion that hasn't budged in the past decade.
In the ligand-bound AdK, the closed conformation is energetically most favored with a large energy barrier to open it up, and the conformational population prefers to shift to the closed form coupled with transitions.
Z is pareto preferred to Y if and only no one in the population prefers Y to Z and at least one person prefers Z to Y. Technically, the Kaldor-Hicks criterion is not a purely welfarist criterion as it requires reference to the underlying distribution of goods and not simply the underlying distribution of well-being.
