Assessing Consistency of Experimental Data: Comparing Two Values of k

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In summary, the two values for k obtained from different experimental methods (κ1: 0.0607±0.002 Nm and κ2: 0.0564±0.008 Nm) are highly consistent, with the K1 range falling entirely within the K2 range.
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Is my data consistent??

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I've obtained two values for k from two different experimental methods and have calculated errors for each and now I want to comment on their consistency with one another. However I'm not too sure how to go about doing that, have a feeling there's some way with statistics but I'm still very new to that so am still not entirely sure how it all works. My results are given below. Thanks


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κ1: 0.0607±0.002 Nm
κ2: 0.0564±0.008 Nm

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They look highly consistent to me. They don't just overlap; the K1 range is entirely encompassed by the K2 range.
 

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