Inferences

Forensic linguists analyzing the linguistic "fingerprint" of anonymous texts often rely on the frequency of function words (e.g., "the," "of," "in"), as these are used unconsciously and are highly stable within an individual's writing style. To test this, researchers analyzed a large corpus of newspaper articles. They found that while different authors used wildly different nouns and verbs depending on the article's topic, an individual author's relative frequency of the word "of" versus "in" remained mathematically constant to within 0.1% across all of their articles, regardless of subject matter. This statistical stability implies that _______.