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A researcher assumes a Poisson model YPoisson(λ)Y \sim \text{Poisson}(\lambda) for count data. However, the data exhibits overdispersion (Var(Y)>E[Y]Var(Y) > E[Y]). If they proceed with standard Poisson Maximum Likelihood Estimation, how is the consistency of λ^\hat{\lambda} and the validity of the standard errors affected?