"tend to default" is correct and usable in written English.
It usually suggests regular or repeated behavior. For example, "People tend to default to their usual patterns of thought."
According to a previous study, risk factors for unsuccessful outcome were associated with patient behavior and attitudes, as patients registered as defaulters tend to default again [ 14].
We tend to default to complacency.
Owners who live in their homes do tend to default more when home prices fall.
They tend to default to treating it as a crime, only to find that doesn't work.
Borrowers with loan modifications that have not cut their payments tend to default again within six to 12 months.
Rules: "I stopped socializing on weekends as an adult -- we tend to default to people with kids," she says.
When we're feeling threatened, Australians' national vocabulary tends to default to racist bigotry.
As is the case for the other acting categories, however, our method tends to default to the SAG winner when there is a lack of consensus otherwise: that was Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln".
Therefore this scenario, like No. 3, tends to default the notion that there is a desire for an "anybody but Romney" candidate, something for which the evidence is mixed.
In the United States, the current approach for managing adults with SCD tends to default to primary care providers who do not specialize in the treatment of SCD, making it difficult for transitioning patients to find physicians who are comfortable with and have the resources to manage their condition.
As Christians were not regularly taught about MC in churches, they tended to default to their traditional tribal beliefs, which for the Sukuma people is non-circumcision: Even if we say many ethnic groups who don't circumcise, you will find … the Muslims in those ethnic groups have been circumcised but the Christians have not been circumcised.
