Table 4. Median Generalized Quartet Distances to Glottolog for random samples of languages.

Method character type	Character-based			Distance-based
	Cognate classes	Soundclass-concept	Combined
total	0.187	0.147	0.066	0.130
20≤n≤100	0.286	0.210	0.099	0.174
100<n≤200	0.226	0.135	0.065	0.115
200<n≤300	0.157	0.136	0.063	0.132
300<n≤400	0.131	0.132	0.061	0.114