To a fair first approximation, all crime in the U.S.A. is committed by blacks.

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TO A FIRST ORDER APPROXIMATION

He probably could have spent more time explaining the mathematical basis underlying the claim. When the quote is appended to "all crime in the US is committed by blacks", it's appearing to be correct.

Orders of approximation range from 0 - 2.

Higher-order

While higher-order approximations exist and are crucial to a better understanding and description of reality, they are not typically referred to by number.

Continuing the above, a third-order approximation would be required to perfectly fit four data points, and so on. See polynomial interpolation.

Point being, that's a mathematical claim that doesn't literally mean all crime is committed by blacks. (But it's not because they're not trying.)

His link goes into more explanation.