The phrase "crude approach" is acceptable and usable in written English.
You might use it when discussing an idea that is overly simplistic, rough, or lacking in finesse. For example: "The development team's crude approach to the project was ultimately unsuccessful."
I never use a morbid or crude approach to showing the naked bodies of older people.
All this is not to say that such a crude approach to spending cuts isn't shortsighted.
Such a crude approach would not be practical or useful to apply to industrial size problems.
The WebViz system for Web log analysis from Georgia Tech uses the expedient but crude approach of laying out the nodes randomly [PB94].
The Düsseldorf production had taken a "rather crude approach" to Wagner, often said to be Hitler's favourite composer, and his notorious antisemitic rages.
This is an admittedly crude approach, but it suggests that U.S. schools do about as well as the best systems elsewhere in educating similar students.
"No other education system, including those often cited as high performing and fast improving by ministers, has resorted to use of such crude approaches to holding schools to public account for their work as those in place in England".
However, gene annotation programs still use crude approaches to detect the 3' boundary of the last exon.
Relatively crude approaches in exposure assessment in the studies of "tetrachloroethylene-exposed workers" may have attenuated the relative risks.
If it's part of a broader terror plot, then it represents a new and cruder approach.
The accord's predecessor, Basel 1, had the same goal, but took a cruder approach to calculating the riskiness of banks' assets.
