This question is even tricker than the last. Let's start with the easy stuff.

 ⭑⭑ Does Being "Not Undiscovered" Equal the Same Thing as Being "Famous"?

In other words, when you stop being undiscovered, do you start being famous? I thought we might get a yes on this one. Instead, we got the single clearest answer in our entire dataset.

No. Case closed. New case.

⭑⭑ What's the Most Important Factor When Deciding If An Author Is Famous?

This graph starts to look like another close-call until you realize that the Orange slice and the Green slice are basically the same thing: they have famous book(s). Thirty-nine percent of participants agreed it was the book that made them famous, not their message board, follow count, or Wattpad endorsement.

However, none of those other three views are exactly minority either. If you're interested in the 20.6% percent of people who thought fame was determined by follower count, check out the following graph. Note, though, that this graph suffers from the same problem the last followers one did; we gave a lot of high choices, and that might have skewed people's decisions.

No matter what, having a famous book seems to be the primary definition of fame for our participants. But that leads us to a harder question: what makes a book famous?

⭑⭑ What's the Most Important Factor in Deciding If a Book is Famous?

Again, another split vote, with "It has consistent new readers" taking the lead. However, take a look at the top four answers:

1. It has consistent new readers
2. It has lots of people finish the book (tied)
2. It has a certain large number of reads (tied)
3. It has more than one person who is excited about the book.

They have something in common—they're all marks of reader engagement. The other three options (winning the Wattys, traditionally publishing, or being a famous author) are all minority views. This seem to suggest that what Wattpad readers care about isn't what the bigwigs think is good—it's what other Wattpadders think is good.

Which means fame, my dear Wattpad friends, is in your hands. You guys decide what becomes famous. Not the algorithm. Not HQ. You and your reads and your enthusiasm and sharing all add up to one day, maybe, picking out the next famous book.

But... how famous is famous?

⭑⭑ How Many Reads Makes a Book Famous?

Now this, my friends, is the trickiest question of all (mathematically speaking).

One million seems to be pulling into the lead with 24% of participants choosing it. However, 100K isn't far behind. So which one is 'right'? Let's take a look at the math.

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1. The Range
First of all, the minimum anyone picked was 1K (but only two participants chose that), and the maximum was "Several Million or more" (which 6 people, or 5.6% chose).

While those are minority views, that is still plenty of disagreement. Let's see what the majority of people picked.

2. The Middle 50%
If you cut off the upper-end extremists (top 25%) and the lower-end extremists (lower 25%), you're left with the folks in the middle. That's the group we're going to be taking a look at: The Middle Folks.

So on the low-end of The Middle Folks, you have people who say you need at least 50,000 views for your book to be famous. On the high-end of The Middle Folks, you have those who say you need at least 1,000,000 views to be famous. And if you lined everyone's answers up and chose the person who was exactly in the middle of the data, they would say you need at least 100,000 views to be famous.

3. Other Measures of the Center
On the other hand, if you added up everyone's answers and divided by the amount of people, you would get a number 5 times of the smack-dab middle: at least 504,210 views to be famous. That's not a great measure here, though, because 1M and "several million" (which I coded as 3M) are just such big numbers. It's like stacking a couple boulders on one side of a scale and a thousand pebbles on the other—the scale is obviously going to lean a bit to the boulder side, even if there are way more pebbles.

Finally, if you just pick the most chosen answer, you would get 1 million views.

So where does that leave us? Somewhere between 50K and 1M is a lot of ground to cover. After all, 1M is 20 times the amount that 50K is. Imagine your book finally making it to 50K. Now imagine it doing that 20 more times. It's an insane difference.

So here's my argument for picking a "famous" value:

Maybe I'm crazy, but I think if someone insisted my book was famous, but I didn't feel like it was even though it may have a certain number of views, I would be more upset than if they didn't think my book was famous even if I did because I'd hit a certain number of views. 

For instance, if my book had 100K views and someone insisted I was famous when I very much did not feel famous, I think that would be more upsetting than if I had 100K views and secretly thought I was famous, but nobody else said so. Comment inline whether you agree with my assessment. Feel free to disagree; I'm genuinely interested.

However, no matter how that informal poll turns out, I think this logic is consistent with the way our participants answered. No one in the survey claimed that they were famous. Not the three people with more than 50K views. Not the three with 100K+. Not the one with 223,600 or the one with 400,000 views, or even the one with ten million views. No matter how many reads they had, they didn't think they were famous. They might think other people with those same reads are famous; in fact, the data suggests they do. But they don't think they are famous.

At the same time, though, this is the only category where "I don't think a certain number of x makes you y" was a minority view. That shows that, for our participants at least, fame isn't some nebulous concept that we can't define in numbers. They had no trouble defining other people's fame in numbers. 

The question is: should we? I think we need to be careful—especially since this wasn't random data—about picking a number and saying everyone above or below is "famous." However, with that caution in mind, if I was going to pick a number, I'd take the one at the high end of the scale: 1M.

Why the high number? Well, like I said before, if you're calling someone else famous, you want to make sure you have good grounds to do it on because they probably don't feel famous. Also, if you're going to call yourself famous, you don't want to do that too early or else people might think you're being arrogant. Some people might think you can be famous at less than 1M, but all but 6% of the people we talked to agreed that you would be famous once you reached at least 1M views. Therefore, I think 1M is a mostly safe number to call "famous".

But, if that's the case... why didn't any of our participants feel famous? Even the ones who chose a number for "fame" lower than their amount of reads? 

Well that, my friends, is a question for next chapter. (;