Table 1.

Differences in real vs perceived national policy support

Policy	Actual support (%)	Perceived support (%)	T	Cohen’s d	95% CI of diff. (%)
Carbon Tax	67	36.6	96.26	1.27	29.7–31.0
Siting RE	80	43.4	113.10	1.48	35.9–37.2
100% RE	66	39.5	69.79	0.91	21.9–23.2
GND	66	37.9	89.81	1.17	27.5–28.7

Note. Real, perceived and 95% CI are all in percentages. One sample t-tests (two-tailed) were conducted against constant for real policy support values and each have 6118 degrees of freedom. RE refers to renewable energy. GND refers to the Green New Deal.