Does insight problem solving predict real-world creativity?

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The Importance of Domain-Specific Expertise in Creativity (2015, background): “Beaty, Nusbaum, and Silvia (2014) looked at the correlations between success at solving two classic insight problems and real-world creative achievement and concluded that there was “no evidence for a relationship between insight problem solving behavior and creative behavior and achievement” (p.…”
Convergent Thinking Moderates the Relationship between Divergent Thinking and Scientific Creativity (2019, background): “Previous research suggested there was no significant correlation between insight problem solving and individual creativity (Beaty et al., 2014), but the present study found a significant correlation between insight and scientific creativity.”
Creative self‐efficacy as mediator between creative mindsets and creative problem‐solving (2019, methodology): “Beaty et al. (2014) found that while insight problem-solving ability was correlated with intelligence, there was no evidence that insight problem-solving ability predicted either self-reported creativity or creative behavior.”