...the facts. Neither can we allow the individual investigator to choose his value premises arbitrarily. The value premises should be selected by the criterion...relevance and significance to the culture under study.™ This passage clearly indicates that, for Myrdal, facts and values were not the same thing. Values do...

...facts, nor could they be left to the arbitrary choice of individual researchers. Rather, they would be selected "by the criterion of relevance and significance to the culture under study" (1043, 1045). That being so, alternative sets of value premises were possible and should be utilized....

...can we allow the individual investigator to choose his value premises arbitrarily. The value fremiies should be selected by the criterion of relevance and...appropriate. If for reasons of practicability only one set of value premises is utilized, it is the more important that the reservation is always kept conscious:...