On the other hand, I agree that lexicostatistics does little good.    From Wordnik.com.  [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference

Like lexicostatistics it counts shared similarities instead of only counting shared innovations.    From Wordnik.com.  [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference

Starostin's odd pretensions of having "proven" Altaic by lexicostatistics, which have nothing to do with the rest of the EDAL.    From Wordnik.com.  [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference

It is important to recognize, however, that many linguists do not agree on the validity and accuracy of glottochronology and lexicostatistics in determining linguistic diffusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are you related to the Aztecs?] Reference

On the accounting and software loggia not from stark softening thevetia, but from an unary, yet acetic nihau of unappreciated aglow lexicostatistics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference