Star rating appearing on products that have no reviews (Product Reviews App)

We have noticed an issue with our store where some products that have not yet received any reviews are showing a star rating. The star ratings are appearing on collection pages, and product pages. We are using Shopify’s Product Reviews app. I have extensively reviewed our theme code (Pixel Union Empire 8.0), and can’t find any discrepancies that would cause this. Here is an example product: https://jibsactionsports.ca/collections/scooter-decks/products/madd-gear-juzzy-carter-v2-street-signature-deck

Has anyone experienced a similar issue and/or know of any solutions?

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Quick update about this issue - it would appear that the affected products were created by duplicating a previous product. It would seem that all the meta information stored under the spr.reviews metafield is being duplicated to the new product. Is this considered normal behaviour? Seems like a bit of an oversight to have meta information copied from old products to newly duplicated products.

Another update here. I seemed to resolve the symptom by writing a new review for any of the affected products. This removed the erroneous star ratings.

@Shopify_77 Maybe it would be good to address the root of the problem because I don’t think that copying review metadata when duplicating products is ideal behaviour.

It’s September 2024 and this is still a problem.

We ended up switching over to Judge.me’s free plan, and haven’t had any issues. IIRC, the native Shopify Reviews app is now deprecated.