This latest revision for pork comes again on the advice of the FSIS, which says cooking cuts of pork to 145Â° F with a three minute rest is as safe as cooking them to 160Â° F, the previously recommended temperature, with no rest time.With a single temperature for all whole cuts of meat and uniform 3 minute stand time, we believe it will be much easier for consumers to remember and result in safer food preparation,â said Under Secretary Elisabeth Hagen in the USDAâs news release.
From Wikipedia. Point estimation. In statistics, point estimation involves the use of sample data to calculate a single value (known as a statistic) which is to serve as a best guess for an unknown (fixed or random) population parameter. More formally, it is the application of a point estimator to the data.
There is a formal statistical setup in which you are trying to use the mean or median as an estimate of the center of some symmetric[1] population, based on a sample. In this case, one should use the more accurate estimate, and which is more accurate depends on the shape of the population. For a bell-shaped population distribution, the mean will be more accurate. For a heavy-tailed distribution (e.g. Cauchy) the median will be more accurate.