Are two experimental values of k consistent within their error bars?

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Is my data consistent??

Homework Statement


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.