TITLE: First and second order statistics
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: In this paper Boltzmann Machines, the first paragraph of the second section 2. Boltzmann Machines argues that, 

we could never train such a network with three units to visit the
  states (0,0,0), (0,1,1), (1,0,1) and (1,1,0) with some probabilities,
  but not the other four possible states. This is because the first and
  second order statistics (the mean of each component and correlations
  between components) are the same for these four states as the
  remaining four and so the network can not discriminate them.

As I learned from here, order logic is just to order the attributes of the samples and take the i-th element of it. 
I am wondering why the first and second order statistics of the two sets are the same.
Thank you!

REPLY [9 votes]: I know that this is an old question with an accepted answer. But in the hope of helping someone finding this question now or in the future I'm answering.
I believe the paper was referring to "low-order statistics" and not "order statistics". Low-order statistics are functions or quantitative measures which use the zeroth, first and second power of a sample.
For a probability density, the first-order statistic (first moment) is the mean, the second-order statistic (second moment) is the variance.